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Original Title:	The Remains of the Day
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	James Stevens, Miss Kenton, Lord Darlington, Mr. Farraday, Reginald Cardinal, Dupont, William Stevens, Senator Lewis
Setting:	England,1956
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize (1989)

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Paperback | Pages: 258 pages

Rating: 4.12 | 185273 Users | 12895 Reviews

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In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.

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Title	:	The Remains of the Day
Author	:	Kazuo Ishiguro
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 258 pages
Published	:	2005 by Faber & Faber (first published 1989)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Epic Fantasy. High Fantasy

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Love is in the air--or maybe anxiously repressed--in February and my romantic literature jag continues with The Remains of the Day, the 1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro and winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction the same year. This is a magnificent novel, artfully focused in its portraiture of William Stevens, butler of the fictitious Darlington Hall near Oxford. On one level, Stevens' first person account of his service is rendered in beautifully crafted language, full of one Englishman's stoic

An exquisite novel featuring one of the most fascinating unreliable narrators in all of fiction.In post-war England, Stevens, an aging, old-school English butler whos worked for decades at Darlington Hall, plans a car trip to visit the estates former housekeeper, Miss Kenton, in the west country. During the journey, he reflects on his long career, and we get a good sense of his life inextricably linked to his long-time employer, Lord Darlington and that of his country.Thanks to Downton Abbey,

Why did I wait so many years to read this book? It's beautiful. I loved it so much that I finished it in almost one sitting. I feel a bit like Mr. Stevens, sitting on the pier at the end of the story, wondering how his life could have been different. While Mr. Stevens is thinking of a lost love; I'm thinking of the bad books that could have been avoided if I had picked up Ishiguro instead.I'll keep the synopsis brief, since most of my GR friends have already read this. The story is told by Mr.



This is a compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world in postwar England At the end of his three decades of service in Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a vacation, driving in the country, hoping to reconnect with a woman with whom he had once worked, and with whom he felt some stifled form of intimacy. Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins in the film - from The GuardianOver these few days, he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has

Just announced as Winner of the Nobel Prize 2017!!! Well deserved. ***Every day, for the past week I've encouraged myself to start writing this review. It feelt impossible to find my words to discuss such a literary masterpiece. Who gives me the right to even try? After staring blankly at the screen for some time, I finally remembered a beautiful passage that can perfectly describe what I felt about this novel. So, I will let the author describe his work. Although the quote depicts the

YES! YES!YES! The Nobel Prize totally deserved! So jubilant as one of my favourite Authors to whom I've been faithful for nearly 20 years has been honoured with the Prize!