The remains of the day / Kazuo Ishiguro ; with an introduction by Salman Rushdie.

By:

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteraturePublisher: London : Faber and Faber, 1989Description: 258 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780571258246 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

823.914 ISH 23 011568

LOC classification:

PR6059.S5 R46 2012

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.

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	823.914 ISH 011568 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011568

Originally published: London: Faber, 1989.

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.

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