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The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here.In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Genres
Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Literature, Literary Fiction

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