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The Remains of the Day

by: Kazuo Ishiguro

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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780679731726
Edition: 1st
Format: Unabridged
ISBN: 0679731725
Item Dimensions: 8005144055
Label: Vintage International
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Vintage International
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 245
Publication Date: September 12, 1990
Publisher: Vintage International
Release Date: September 12, 1990
Studio: Vintage International

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1993 - Vintage International Books - Paperback
The Remains of the Day
By Kazuo Ishiguro
Winner of the Booker Prize
New - Collectible

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The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving “a great gentleman.” But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s “greatness” and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served.

A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.

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The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.

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