The Remains of the Day

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is "an intricate and dazzling novel" (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.

This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. 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.

Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/12/1990
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780679731726

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.9
Point Value: 13
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 16721 / Remains of the Day


Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee
Award: Man Booker Prize - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/03/1990
Entertainment Weekly 07/05/2013 pg. 101
Entertainment Weekly 03/07/2014 pg. 69

About the Author
Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have sold more than 1 million copies, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro's other work includes The Buried Giant, Nocturnes, A Pale View of the Hills, and An Artist of the Floating World.