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From the Nobel Prize–winning author, here is an elegant Everyman's Library hardcover edition of the universally acclaimed novel—winner of the Booker Prize, a bestseller, and the basis for an award-winning film—with full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and an introduction by Salman Rushdie.

Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

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The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.
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A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful, wonderful book.
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  • PublisherEveryman's Library
  • Publication date2012
  • ISBN 10 0307961443
  • ISBN 13 9780307961440
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number2
  • Number of pages248
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: New. Second Printing. Product DescriptionFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author, here is an elegant Everyman's Library hardcover edition of the universally acclaimed novel-winner of the Booker Prize, a bestseller, and the basis for an award-winning film-with full-cloth binding, a silk ribbon marker, a chronology, and an introduction by Salman Rushdie.Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.ReviewWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME"An intricate and dazzling novel." -The New York Times"Brilliant and quietly devastating." -Newsweek"A virtuoso performance . put on with dazzling daring and aplomb." -The New York Review of Books"A perfect novel. I couldn t put it down." -Ann Beattie"The novel rests firmly on the narrative sophistication and flawless control of tone . of a most impressive novelist." -Julian BarnesAbout the AuthorKazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have sold more than 1 million copies, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro's other work includes Nocturnes, A Pale View of the Hills, and An Artist of the Floating World.Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Excerpted from the Introduction by Salman RushdieIntroduction I was very consciously trying to write for an international audience, Kazuo Ishiguro says of The Remains of the Day in his Paris Review interview ( The Art of Fiction , No. 196). One of the ways I thought I could do this was to take a myth of England that was known internationally - in this case, the English butler. Jeeves was a big influence. This is a necessary genuflection. No literary butler can ever quite escape the gravitational field of Wodehouse s shimmering Reginald, gentleman s gentleman par excellence, saviour, so often, of Bertie Wooster s imperilled bacon. But, even in the Wodehousian canon, Jeeves does not stand alone. Behind him can be seen the rather more louche figure of the Earl of Emsworth s man, Sebastian Beach, enjoying a quiet tipple in the butler s pantry at Blandings Castle. And other butlers - Meadowes, Maple, Mulready, Purvis - float in and out of Wodehouse s world, not all of them pillars of probity. The English butler, the shadow that speaks, is, like all good myths, multiple and contradictory. One can t help feeling that Gordon Jackson s portrayal of the stoic Hudson in the 1970s TV series Upstairs, Downstairs may have been as important to Ishiguro as Jeeves: the butler as liminal figure, standing on the border between the worlds of Upstairs and Downstairs , Mr Hudson to the servants, plain Hudson to the gilded creatures he serves.Now that the popularity of another television series, Downton Abbey, has introduced a new generation to the bizarreries of the English class system, Ishiguro s powerful, understated entry into that lost time to make, as he says, a portrait of a wasted life provides a salutary, disenchanted counterpoint to the less sceptical methods of Julian Fellowes s TV drama. The Remains of the Day, in its quiet, almost stealthy way, demolishes the value system of the whole upstairs-downstairs world.(It should be said that Ishiguro s butler is in his way as complete a fiction as Jeeves. Just as Wodehouse made immortal a world that never existed except in his imagination, so also Ishiguro p. Seller Inventory # BKZN9780307961440

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