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The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

  • 254 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 1989
  • 87 editions
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1 About this book

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.

  • Relationships
  • Historical fiction
  • Man Booker Prize Winner
  • Household employees
  • Butlers
  • Country homes
  • Social classes
  • England

2 About Kazuo Ishiguro

Born 1954

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (Japanese: 石黒 一雄, Hepburn: Ishiguro Kazuo; ; born 8 November 1954) is a Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. He is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded several major literary prizes, including the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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