**Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning masterpiece became an international bestseller on publication, was adapted into an award-winning film, and has since come to be regarded as a modern classic.** *The Remains of the Day* is a spellbinding portrayal of a vanished way of life and a haunting
The Remains of the Day
โ Scribed by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Year
- 2012;2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 134 KB
- Edition
- Main
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go
Winner of the Booker Prize
A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House.
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.
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