The Remains of the Day: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Kazuo Ishiguro

Jul 2010 · Sold by Vintage

About this ebook

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.
 
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

Ratings and reviews

One of my favorite books, and films. If the themes of this well-told story do not speak to you deeply, as they do me, then I think I can understand how you can call the book dull and boring. It strikes a strong, bittersweet chord with me.

I found the imagery and detail fine, but it was slow in parts. Over worded paragraphs that eventually got to the point made this book one I had to force myself to keep reading at times.

Great book, Started off a little dull for me but it is all needed the blandness at the beginning and everything ties up well. Masterpiece

About the author

Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have sold more than 1 million copies, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro's other work includes The Buried Giant, Nocturnes, A Pale View of the Hills, and An Artist of the Floating World.