The Remains of the Day

Name: The Remains of the Day
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
ISBN: 9780571249350

by Kazuo Ishiguro

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*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available* WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 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. 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 triumph . . . This wholly convincing portrait of a human life unweaving before your eyes i...

First published 1989233 pages

Booker Prize (1989)

823

Category: Literature
Priority: Must-Read
Author works: 7
Editions known: 64

Classification

Dewey (DDC): 823823.914[Fic]
Library of Congress (LCC): PR6059.S5R46 2015PR6059.S5 R46 1989bPR6059.S5R46 1989PR6059.S5

Subjects

British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)ButlersCountry homesCountry homes -- FictionCountry homes--england--history--20th century--fictionCountry homes--historyDienerDomesticsEngland, fictionFictionFiction, historicalFiction, historical, general

This edition

ISBN 9780571249350English

DATE DUE

First published1989

Booker Prize1989

Film adaptation1993

StatusREAD

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