The Remains of the Day

Description:

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .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, of lost causes and lost love.

subjects: Man Booker Prize Winner,  award:man_booker_prize=1989,  Literature,  Household employees,  Butlers,  Country homes,  Domestics,  Fiction,  Country homes -- Fiction,  Man-woman relationships,  History,  Historical fiction,  Man-woman relationships, fiction,  Fiction, historical,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  England, fiction,  Readers,  Diener,  Fiction, historical, general,  Social classes,  Country homes--history,  Country homes--england--history--20th century--fiction,  Man-woman relationships--england--fiction,  Household employees--england--fiction,  Pr6059.s5 r46 1993x

Places: England

Times: 20th century