The remains of the day

Author

Kazuo Ishiguro

Call Number

• FICTION ISHI (CEN, OSH)

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Physical Description

xxix, 213 pages ; 22 cm.

Summary

Here 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.

Notes

Originally published: London: Faber, 1989.

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.

Contents

• Prologue: July 1956. Darlington Hall
• Evening. Salisbury
• Morning. Salisbury
• Afternoon. Mortimer's Pond, Dorset
• Morning. Taunton, Somerset
• Evening. Moscombe, near Tavistock, Devon
• Afternoon. Little Compton, Cornwall
• Evening. Weymouth.