The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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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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Man Booker Prize Winner, award:man_booker_prize=1989, Literature, Household employees, Butlers, Country homes, Domestics, Fiction, Country homes -- Fiction, Man-woman relationships, History, Romance fiction, Historical fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, historical, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), England, fiction, Readers, Diener, Fiction, historical, general, Social classes, Country homes--history, Country homes--england--history--20th century--fiction, Man-woman relationships--england--fiction, Household employees--england--fiction, Pr6059.s5 r46 1993xPlaces
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The Remains of the Day
August 14, 2000, Longman
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The remains of the day
1990, Vintage Books
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The remains of the day
1989, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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"Tonight, I find myself here in a guest house in the city of Salisbury."
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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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