The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

First published 1989 · 254 pages

About this book

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.

  • Man Booker Prize Winner
  • Literature
  • Household employees
  • Butlers
  • Country homes
  • Domestics
  • Fiction
  • Country homes -- Fiction

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