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Cover of “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989

258 pages

Stevens, a butler at an English country house, sets out on a motoring trip in 1956 and looks back over decades of service. Recalling his employer's political misjudgements and his own missed chances with the housekeeper, he begins to see what a life given to duty has cost him.

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Melancholic, Unreliable Narrator, War Fiction, Philosophical, Mutual Pining

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