The Remains of the Day
About this book
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.
Subjects
- award:man_booker_prize=1989
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- butlers
- country homes
- country homes--england--history--20th century--fiction
- country homes -- fiction
- country homes--history
- diener
- domestics
- employés de maison
- england, fiction
- fiction
- fiction, historical
- fiction, historical, general
- historical fiction
- history
- household employees
- household employees--england--fiction
- literature
- man booker prize winner
- man-woman relationships
- man-woman relationships--england--fiction
- man-woman relationships, fiction
- pr6059.s5 r46 1993x
- readers
- romans, nouvelles
- samfundsskildringer
- social classes