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The Remains of the Dayby Kazuo Ishiguro
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Heralded upon release for its elegance and restraint, The Remains of the Day has become a classic of British literature — and one of my favorite books! Ishiguro's simple, painstakingly precise language beautifully captures a man and an era that prized decorum above truth, with perilous results. A gorgeous novel. Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world in 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.
Review:"The novel rests firmly on the narrative sophistication and flawless control of tone...of a most impressive novelist." Julian Barnes
Review:"Brilliant...a story both beautiful and cruel." Salman Rushdie
Review:"A perfect novel. I couldn't put it down." Ann Beattie
Review:"A virtuoso performance...put on with dazzling daring and aplomb." The New York Review of Books
Review:"Brilliant and quietly devastating." Newsweek
Review:"An intricate and dazzling novel." The New York Times
Review:"One of the best books of the decade." The Boston Globe
Review:"One of the best books of the year." The New York Times Book Review
Review:"[T]he novel persuasively implicates a broader section of the ruling class in the rise of fascism while emphasising the complicity of a huge army of subordinates that led ultimately to the Holocaust. This is no mean achievement, of course, but overall The Remains of the Day is less impressive than An Artist of the Floating World whose scheme and form it repeats almost exactly." Geoff Dyer, New Statesman & Society
Review:"[Stevens] is totally humorless and myopically preoccupied by his job. He should be dull. Mr. Ishiguro makes him immensely interesting by causing him to reveal to the reader what Stevens himself does not understand either about his own conduct or about the activities of the nobleman whom he served devotedly for most of his career. The author maintains this double-vision pattern without ever deviating from the overcareful style that he has created for Stevens, and the effect is funny and sad and ultimately disturbing, for questions of moral responsibility lurk behind the novel's highly polished surface." Phoebe-Lou Adams, The Atlantic
About the AuthorKazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of five novels, including The Remains of the Day, an international bestseller that won the Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro's work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1995, he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
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