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Yusef M asked this question about Klara and the Sun:
What are the 'oblongs'? I'm 60pgs in and it's mentioned a few times. Josie's mother has one and Josie has an "oblong tutor".
Itchyone It's a cellphone. "They’d just wanted to take off their sports shoe and do something to it, or to press their oblongs."
I read this as checking you mai…moreIt's a cellphone. "They’d just wanted to take off their sports shoe and do something to it, or to press their oblongs."
I read this as checking you mail or texting.(less)
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Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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