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Kazuo Ishiguro’s moving portrait of the perfect English butler, his loyalty and his fading, insular world in post-war England."The Remains of the Day is in fact a brilliant subversion of the fictional modes from which it seems at first to descend." - Salman Rushdie. The GuardianAt the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ‘a great gentleman.’ But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s ‘greatness’ - and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he has served."Kazuo Ishiguro’s tonal control of Stevens’ repressive yet continually reverberating first-person voice is dazzling. So is his ability to present the butler from every point on the compass: with affectionate humour, tart irony, criticism, compassion and full understanding. It is remarkable, too, that as we read along in this strikingly original novel, we continue to think not only about the old butler but about his country, its politics and its culture.” - Lawrence Graver, The New York TimesKazuo Ishiguro’s works of fiction have ea

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Author

Kazuo Ishiguro; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Vintage International; Random House

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307576187

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.1 / 5 (5,257 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14