The Remains of the Day av Kazuo Ishiguro - Pocketbok, 272 sider

<p><font><b>*Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel <i>Klara and the Sun is </i>now available*</b></font><br><br><b>WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE</b><br><br>A contemporary classic, <i>The Remains of the Day</i> is Kazuo Ishiguro''s beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. <br><br>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. <br><br>''A triumph . . . This wholly convincing portrait of a human life unweaving before your eyes is inventive and absorbing, by turns funny, absurd and ultimately very moving.'' <i>Sunday Times</i><br><br>''A dream of a book: a beguiling comedy of manners that evolves almost magically into a profound and heart-rending study of personality, class and culture.'' <i>New York TImes Book Review</i></p>