The remains of the day
By: Kazuo Ishiguro.
Edition: 1st Vintage international ed.
Series: Vintage international
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Country homes -- Fiction; Domestics -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Description: Overview: The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At 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 served. A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.
Notes: "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Ltd., London, and in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1989"--T.p. verso.