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The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Start date: December 1, 2010

Finish date: February 28, 2011

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Jan 31, 2019 Rachel W rated it it was amazing

Shelves: owned-on-the-shelf, historical-fiction, beautiful, would-recommend, read-in-2019

One rarely encounters a book both so touching and so dignified. Masterful.

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Sep 22, 2008 Tien rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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The book is written from the point of view of an English Butler. It is written in his contemplation of events in his life. Darlington Hall, where has served the family for many years, was sold to an American. He stayed on to serve however he came to realise that the number of staff is insufficient.

A letter from a previous housekeeper of this household prompted him to seek her services. He made a 'motoring' trip to see her and along this trip, he contemplated his life.

It is amazing to see that wh ...more

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Nov 14, 2007 Joanna rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001, 2011-read, rws-2011-fall

I loved this book. The narrator is one of the definitive unreliable narrators. Stevens is in English butler and head of staff from the grand old days of British households. He muses on his years of service to Lord Darlington and the nature of "duty" and "loyalty." Yet, as the story unfolds, it becomes increasingly clear that Stevens is not the innocent bystander in the events before him that he'd like to think of himself as.

The love story between Stevens and Miss Kenton was almost too much to b ...more

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