Description
'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?'
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English 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.
The Remains of the Day is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.
The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's best-loved Booker Prize-winning novel.
About the Author
Kazuo Ishiguro's seven published books have won him wide renown and many honours around the world. His work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have each sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies in Faber editions alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. His latest novel is The Buried Giant.
Awards
Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1989.
Book Information
ISBN 9780571200733
Author Kazuo Ishiguro
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 154g
Dimensions(mm) 178mm * 111mm * 16mm
