The Remains of the Day (Everyman's Library CLASSICS)

In the summer of 1956 Stevens the ageing butler of Darlington Hall embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past .|Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki Japan on November 8 1954.Books include Never Let Me Go (made into a film) When We Were Orphans The Unconsoled An Artist Of A Floating World A Pale View of Hills and Nocturnes.In 1995 Ishiguro was named to the Order of the British Empire for his contributions to literature.He lives in London|In the summer of 1956 Stevens the ageing butler of Darlington Hall embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love The Remains of the Day winner of the Booker Prize contains Ishiguro's now celebrated evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House - within its walls can be heard ever more distinct echoes of the violent upheavals spreading across Europe.|An era revealed in a perfect butler’s imperfections