The Remains of the Day
By Kazuo Ishiguro
Harry Hartog's review
I read this book for University, as I previously did Never Let Me Go inHighschool. When I first started I expected it to be a boring read, but Iwas pleasantly incorrect. Written in the form of a stream of consciousness, we follow thejourney of an elderly English butler into the countryside andsubsequently his past. With our unreliable narrator talking of his past endeavours, we sit back and piece together what is a life full of regret, missed opportunity and relationships broken by a work ethic that is all-encompassing. - Paige, Harry Hartog Burnside
Description
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go.
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.
- ISBN:
- 9780571258246
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 272
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- Imprint:
- Faber & Faber
- Weight:
- 228 g