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The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day

by KazuoIshiguro (Author)

Synopsis

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. "From the Trade Paperback edition."

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 03 Mar 2005
ISBN 10: 0571225381
ISBN 13: 9780571225385

Author Bio
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954 and came to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of the novels A Pale View of Hills (winner of the Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (winner of the 1986 Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Premio Scanno, and shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (winner of the 1989 Booker Prize) and When We Were Orphans (shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize and Whitbread Novel of the Year). Kazuo Ishiguro's books have been translated into twenty-eight languages. The Remains of the Day became an international bestseller, with over a million copies sold in the English language alone, and was adapted into an award-winning film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. His most recent novel, Never Let Me Go, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005.