The Remains of the Day

'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English 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. The Remains of the Day is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.

'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English 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. The Remains of the Day is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.

Nobelprisvindende forfatter Kazuo Ishiguros "The Remains of the Day" er siden sin udgivelse i 1989 opnået klassikerstatus. Historien fortælles i førsteperson af butleren Stevens. Stevens' fortælling fokuserer på hans forhold til Miss Kenton, en tidligere kollega, som han aldrig turde dele sine følelser med. Under en ferie i sommeren 1956, drager han ud i det engelske landskab for at konfrontere sin fortid. Hans rejse tager ham til Cornwall, hvor han vil besøge Miss Kenton, der nu hedder Mrs Brenn. "The Remains of the Day" er den eneste af Kazuo Ishiguros bøger der har vundet Booker prisen.

Nobelprisvindende forfatter Kazuo Ishiguros "The Remains of the Day" er siden sin udgivelse i 1989 opnået klassikerstatus. Historien fortælles i førsteperson af butleren Stevens. Stevens' fortælling fokuserer på hans forhold til Miss Kenton, en tidligere kollega, som han aldrig turde dele sine følelser med. Under en ferie i sommeren 1956, drager han ud i det engelske landskab for at konfrontere sin fortid. Hans rejse tager ham til Cornwall, hvor han vil besøge Miss Kenton, der nu hedder Mrs Brenn. "The Remains of the Day" er den eneste af Kazuo Ishiguros bøger der har vundet Booker prisen.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is the universally acclaimed novel-winner of the Booker Prize and the basis for an award-winning film. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. 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.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is the universally acclaimed novel-winner of the Booker Prize and the basis for an award-winning film. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. 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.

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's now celebrated evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House - within its walls can be heard ever more distinct echoes of the violent upheavals spreading across Europe.

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's now celebrated evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House - within its walls can be heard ever more distinct echoes of the violent upheavals spreading across Europe.