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The Remains of the Day

Introduction by Salman Rushdie

By Kazuo Ishiguro

By Kazuo Ishiguro

By Kazuo Ishiguro
Introduction by Salman Rushdie

By Kazuo Ishiguro
Introduction by Salman Rushdie

By Kazuo Ishiguro

By Kazuo Ishiguro

By Kazuo Ishiguro
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By Kazuo Ishiguro
Read by Nicholas Guy Smith

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Sep 12, 1990 | ISBN 9780679731726

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Oct 02, 2012 | ISBN 9780307961440

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Jul 15, 2010 | ISBN 9780307576187

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    About The Remains of the Day

    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.

    About The Remains of the Day

    From the Nobel Prize–winning author, here is an elegant Everyman’s Library hardcover edition of the universally acclaimed novel—winner of the Booker Prize, a bestseller, and the basis for an award-winning film—with full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and an introduction by Salman Rushdie.

    Here is Kazuo Ishiguro’s profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. 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.

    About The Remains of the Day

    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.

    About The Remains of the Day

    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.

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    About Kazuo Ishiguro

    KAZUO ISHIGURO was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight previous works of fiction have earned him many honors around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the… More about Kazuo Ishiguro

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    About Kazuo Ishiguro

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    KAZUO ISHIGURO was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight previous works of fiction have earned him many honors around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the… More about Kazuo Ishiguro

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 12, 1990 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679731726

    Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction

    Hardcover | $30.00
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Oct 02, 2012 | 248 Pages | 4-7/8 x 8-1/8 | ISBN 9780307961440

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jul 15, 2010 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9780307576187

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Random House Audio
    Oct 15, 2019 | 564 Minutes | ISBN 9780593209691
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    Praise

    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME

    “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

    Awards

    Booker Prize WINNER 1989

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