The Remains Of The Day Kazuo Ishiguro by Kazuo Ishiguro 9780345809322, 0345809327 instant download after payment.

Kazuo Ishiguro’s moving portrait of the perfect English butler, his loyalty and his fading, insular world in post-war England.

"The Remains of the Day is in fact a brilliant subversion of the fictional modes from which it seems at first to descend."  -  Salman Rushdie. The Guardian

At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving ‘a great gentleman.’ But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s ‘greatness’ - and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he has served.

"Kazuo Ishiguro’s tonal control of Stevens’ repressive yet continually reverberating first-person voice is dazzling. So is his ability to present the butler from every point on the compass: with affectionate humour, tart irony, criticism, compassion and full understanding. It is remarkable, too, that as we read along in this strikingly original novel, we continue to think not only about the old butler but about his country, its politics and its culture.”   -  Lawrence Graver, The New York Times

Kazuo Ishiguro’s works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ishiguro was awarded a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan.