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The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro


  • Vintage Books - RH US
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's now celebrated evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House - within its walls can be heard ever more distinct echoes of the violent upheavals spreading across Europe.

ISBN 9780679731726 | E | PB
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Publisher Vintage Books - RH US
ISBN 9780679731726
Publication date October 2017
Edition Paperback
Dimensions 203 x 132 mm
Pages 256
Language(s) Eng. ed.
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This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

In October, Kazuo Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.