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The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

245 pages

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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.

Themes
Melancholic & NostalgicQuietly DevastatingHeartbreakingThought-ProvokingThe cost of professional devotionThe silence of repressed emotionThe illusion of dignityThe weight of unspoken regret
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