The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics - Softcover

Ishiguro, Kazuo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571322735 ISBN 13: 9780571322732

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2015

Synopsis

ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'

The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the world's greatest writers. David Lodge, chairman of the judges in 1989, said, it's "a cunningly structured and beautifully paced performance". This is a haunting evocation of lost causes and lost love, and an elegy for England at a time of acute change. Ishiguro's work has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide.

Stevens, the long-serving butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside, but also into his own past. Reflecting on his years of service, he must re-examine his life in the face of changing Britain, and question whether his dignity and properness have come at a greater cost to himself.

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Review:

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, beautifully crafted novel-- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.

Review:

"An intricate and dazzling novel." --"The New York Times"
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"Brilliant and quietly devastating." --"Newsweek "
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"""A virtuoso performance ... put on with dazzling daring and aplomb." --"The New York Review of Books"
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"A perfect novel. I couldn't put it down." --Ann Beattie
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"The novel rests firmly on the narrative sophistication and flawless control of tone ... of a most impressive novelist." --Julian Barnes

An intricate and dazzling novel. "The New York Times"
""
Brilliant and quietly devastating. "Newsweek "
""
" "A virtuoso performance ... put on with dazzling daring and aplomb. "The New York Review of Books"
""
A perfect novel. I couldn t put it down. Ann Beattie
""
The novel rests firmly on the narrative sophistication and flawless control of tone ... of a most impressive novelist. Julian Barnes"

An intricate and dazzling novel. The New York Times

Brilliant and quietly devastating. Newsweek

A virtuoso performance ... put on with dazzling daring and aplomb. The New York Review of Books

A perfect novel. I couldn t put it down. Ann Beattie

The novel rests firmly on the narrative sophistication and flawless control of tone ... of a most impressive novelist. Julian Barnes"

"An intricate and dazzling novel." --The New York Times

"Brilliant and quietly devastating." --Newsweek

"A virtuoso performance ... put on with dazzling daring and aplomb." --The New York Review of Books

"A perfect novel. I couldn't put it down." --Ann Beattie

"The novel rests firmly on the narrative sophistication and flawless control of tone ... of a most impressive novelist." --Julian Barnes

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0571322735
• ISBN 13: 9780571322732
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272