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  • The Remains of the Day: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature by Kazuo Ishiguro book cover
  • The Remains of the Day: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature by Kazuo Ishiguro book cover
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The Remains of the Day: Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Duty, memory, and a life in service

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Booker Prize winner

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  • Author recognition

    Author Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Prize in Literature winner

    The description identifies the credited author as a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

  • Critical praise

    Praised by The New York Times as “an intricate and dazzling novel”

    The New York Times is cited praising the novel as “an intricate and dazzling novel.”

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Duty, memory, and a life in service

In postwar England, butler Stevens sets out on a country drive after three decades at Darlington Hall. The journey brings him back to his service under Lord Darlington and to the question of what that service meant. As Stevens revisits his employer’s standing and his own choices, the novel connects the private reckoning of one household’s butler to broader questions of loyalty, judgment, and personal responsibility. Its scope is intimate: a day on the road opens onto a life shaped by work and by the past.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in novels about memory and self-examination.
  • Those drawn to stories of domestic service and changing social worlds.
  • Readers seeking literary fiction set in postwar England.

Themes

Duty and serviceMemory and self-examinationLoyalty and judgmentPostwar social change

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Book overview

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is"an intricate and dazzling novel" (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.

This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. 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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