Name : The Remains of the Day Binding : Paperback Publication Date : 1990-09-12 Author : Ishiguro, Kazuo Publisher : Vintage ISBN-13 : 9780679731726 Language : English Pages : 256
Description : The universally acclaimed novel--winner of the Booker Prize and the basis for an award-winning film.
Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevensthe perfect butlerand of his fadinginsular world in post-World War II England. Stevensat the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hallspending a day on a country driveembarks 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.