The remains of the day / Kazuo Ishiguro.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, New York : Vintage International, [1993]Copyright date: ©1988Edition: Vintage International editionDescription: 245 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0679731725
- 9780679731726
- Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1989
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER * From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is "an intricate and dazzling novel" ( The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. 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.
Reprint. Originally published: London : Faber and Faber Ltd., 1988.
Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1989
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.