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The Remains of the Day
Published1989
Pages208
Open Library4.2 / 5
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OL59048WOpen Library work
Excerpt
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.
Literary origin
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United Kingdom
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Subjects
- Man Booker Prize Winner
- award:man_booker_prize=1989
- Literature
- Household employees
- Butlers
- Country homes
- Domestics
- Fiction
- Country homes -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships
Times & places
- 20th century