The remains of the day

245 pages

English language

Published Oct. 29, 1989 by Knopf, Distributed by Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-394-57343-4
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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.

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Subjects

  • Country homes -- Fiction
  • Domestics -- Fiction
  • England -- Fiction

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