Remains of the Day

Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro

Remains of the Day
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Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-12-15
ISBN: 088619444X
Number of pages: 254
Publisher: H B Fenn & Co

Book Reviews of Remains of the Day

Book Review: deep emotional touch in simplicity
Summary: 4 Stars

Simple language and simple plot, but conveys deep emotions about one's insulated life, lived with conscience and dignity, and yet the reflections leave the reader with such sense of loss and then the question, what to do with the remains of the day?

Summary of Remains of the Day

It is the summer of 1956, and Stevens, an aging English butler, embarks on a holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past. For the first time in three decades, Stevens looks back on his long life of service and finds himself confronting the dark undercurrent in the life of his previous employer, Lord Darlington, and his own conflicted relationship with the housekeeper, Miss Kenton.

A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro?s beautiful and haunting meditation on life between the wars, love denied, and the high cost of duty.

Praise for The Remains of the Day:

?An intricate and dazzling novel.? ?The New York Times
?Brilliant and quietly devastating.? ?Newsweek
?Ishiguro has become one of the finest prose stylists of our time.? ?Michael Ondaatje


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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