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Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989, Book) 
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989, Book)
Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys
Publication Date: 1989-01-01
Series: International Fiction List, 47
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN-10: 0886192196
ISBN-13: 9780886192198
Product ID: EPID4447108
Description: Kazuo Ishiguro's subtly observed third novel (1989) tells the story of a butler named Stevens. Over the years, as Stevens has perfected the art of self-effacement and complete submission to the needs of Lord Darlington, his aristocratic ...
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Synopsis
Kazuo Ishiguro's subtly observed third novel (1989) tells the story of a butler named Stevens. Over the years, as Stevens has perfected the art of self-effacement and complete submission to the needs of Lord Darlington, his aristocratic employer, he has managed to ignore the fact that Darlington was a prominent Nazi sympathizer. Now, in the rapidly changing world of post-World War II England in which the class system is in decline and Stevens has outlived his usefulness, he begins to understand that his obtuseness has blinded him not only to the real nature of his employer but (as he prepares for an unprecedented visit to Mrs. Kenton, the now retired housekeeper) to the workings of his own heart. The overarching themes of the novel are those that Ishiguro has grappled with in many of his books: self-deception, the past's influence on the present, and the essential loneliness of struggling humanity. THE REMAINS OF THE DAY won the Booker Prize and was made into a well-received film directed by Ang Lee and starring Anthony Hopkins as the repressed and lonely Stevens.

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Publication Date:1989-01-01
Series:International Fiction List, 47

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Length:245 pages

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"A flawlessly written, finely tuned portrait of an extraordinary spiritual imprisonment."
Robert Stone

"A fine piece of storytelling, this novel...also gives the reader a unique lens through which to attain a fresh view of the postcolonial age, focusing on how the collapse of colonialism led to major social upheavals, both tribal and global warfare, and the rise of totalitarian states....The core of the novel concerns the colonialism of the heart, and the destruction caused by the suppression of the human instinct to love."
Hungry Mind Review - Kathleen Norris

"[A] chilling rendition of a bootlickingly devoted but morally blank English butler, THE REMAINS OF THE DAY [is] a thoughtful, crafty, and finally very disquieting look at the effects of dehumanization on any group that's subject to it. In Ishiguro's subtle hands, these effects are far from obvious. There's no Them-Bad, Us-Good preaching; rather there's the feeling that as the expectations of such a group are diminished, so is its ability to think outside the box it has been shut up in. The reader reaches the end of the book wondering exactly where the walls of his or her own invisible box begin and end."
Slate - Margaret Atwood (04/01/2005)

"THE REMAINS OF THE DAY is in fact a brilliant subversion of the fictional modes from which it at first seems to descend....A story both beautiful and cruel...."
Observer (London) - Salman Rushdie

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