The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Taste attributes: dramahistoricalromanceslowfresh & originalheavyrealisticlinearemotive & stirringcomplex relationshipself destruction/implosion
Boxlist takeExpect a moving, slow-paced novel, grounded rather than fantastical. Best if you like patience over pace.
Pace: slow · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: heavy · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: linear · Look: balanced · Scale: balanced · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.2 / 5
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About This Book
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 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, of lost causes and lost love.
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- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 254
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