It was soon after adapted into a film starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Dame Emma Thompson. An incredible novel encompassing the wide-ranging effects of class on love, relationships, and self-knowledge, Nobel Prize winner Ishiguro earned the Booker Prize for this work in 1989. The protagonist, Stevens, is a butler with a long record of service at Darlington Hall, a stately home near Oxford, England. When you reach the end, it really does seem as if you've lost a friend" (Beech). The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel by the Nobel Prize -winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The novel ranks in the Sunday Times list of 100 greatest novels. It won the Booker Prize in 1989 for Best Fiction, and was later adapted into an Academy-Award nominated film, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. Bit by bit you learn to look for the real emotions running beneath the buffed surface of the prose.The Remains of the Day does that most wonderful thing a work of literature can do: it makes you feel you hold a human life in your hands. The Remains of The Day is one of the most highly-regarded post-war British novels. Ishiguro, instead, likes to give us unwitting narrators: speakers who remain trapped in self-preserving fictions, mysteries even to themselves. Stevens is chief of staff at an English stately home as the novel opens, in the summer of 1956, he is set to undertake a motoring trip to visit Miss Kenton, a housekeeper who left 20 years earlier to get married.Unreliable narrators are ten a penny in fiction. "A lack of restraint is perhaps the best response to Ishiguro's novel, which is the tale of a man so burdened by propriety that he lets the love of his life slip through his fingers. The protagonist, Stevens, is a butler with a long record of. Fine copy of the book in like jacket jacket. The Remains of the Day is a 1989 novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro.
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