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.
Genres
- Man Booker Prize Winner
- award:man_booker_prize=1989
- Literature
- Household employees
- Butlers
- Country homes
- Domestics
- Fiction
- Country homes -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships
- History
- Romance fiction
- Historical fiction
- Man-woman relationships, fiction
- Fiction, historical
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- England, fiction
- Readers
- Diener
- Fiction, historical, general
- Social classes
- Country homes--history
- Country homes--england--history--20th century--fiction
- Man-woman relationships--england--fiction
- Household employees--england--fiction
- Pr6059.s5 r46 1993x
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