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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Description for The Remains of the Day
Paperback. '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.. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212. NEW.
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE
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.
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 triumph . . . This wholly convincing portrait of a human life unweaving before your eyes is inventive and absorbing, by turns funny, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571258246
SKU
9780571258246
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Ref
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About Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro's eight books have won him world-wide renown and many honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have each sold in excess of one million copies in Faber editions alone, and both were adapted into highly ... Read more
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