The Remains of the Day

<font size=+1><b><i>*</i>Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel <i>Klara and the Sun </i>is now available to preorder<i>*</i></b></font><br><br><i>The Remains of the Day</i> won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the world's greatest writers. David Lodge chairman of the judges in 1989 said it's a cunningly structured and beautifully paced performance. This is a haunting evocation of lost causes and lost love and an elegy for England at a time of acute change. Ishiguro's work has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide.<br><br>Stevens the long-serving butler of Darlington Hall embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside but also into his own past. Reflecting on his years of service he must re-examine his life in the face of changing Britain and question whether his dignity and properness have come at a greater cost to himself.