Book 1993

The Remains of the Day

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Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1993

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

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.