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See moreWinner 1989 Booker Prize: A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England.
The Remains of the Day is Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning novel.
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go.
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.
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro is highly praised for its poignant and subtle exploration of duty, regret, and the passage of time. Critics commend Ishiguro's restrained prose and the depth of the protagonist, Stevens, whose reflections on his life as a butler unveil intricate themes of personal and historical introspection. The novel's reflective narrative style and its exploration of human emotion and identity have earned it a celebrated place in contemporary literature.
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ISBN: 9780571258246
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 April 2010
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 16.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 228g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day, The Unconsoled, When We Were Orphans and Never Let Me Go. He received an OBE for Services to Literature in 1995, and the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998.
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