The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Literary Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
—· 280 p
Booker Prize20th Century ClassicLiterary Canonreflectivehauntingphilosophical
Overview
About
Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 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. 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 triumph . . . This wholly convincing portrait of a human life unweaving before your eyes is…
Pages
280
Faber & Faber
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Unreliable Memory10
Class And Duty10
Prose9
Emotional depth9
Narration9
Worldbuilding6
Pacing6
Plot twists4
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