The Remains of the Day
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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In July 1956, aging English butler Stevens borrows his American employer's Ford and drives across the West Country to call on Mrs. Benn, the former housekeeper of Darlington Hall. Across six days on the road, he replays the years he served Lord Darlington in the run-up to the Second World War.
Yes. The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize. Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, with The Remains of the Day among his most-cited works.
Yes. The Merchant Ivory 1993 film adaptation starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson was nominated for eight Academy Awards. It is widely considered one of the great literary adaptations.
The Remains of the Day was written by Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 1989 by Эксмо.
The Remains of the Day is 256 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Remains of the Day takes most readers 4 to 6 hours to finish.
The Remains of the Day is a standalone novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, not part of a series.
The Remains of the Day is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.