The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Author: Kazuo IshiguroEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-04-12
ISBN: 0517380730
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Summary of The Remains of the Day
A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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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