The remains of the day
Kazuo Ishiguro (Author), Gerald Peary (Donor), Gerald Peary Collection (College of Staten Island Library)
The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence
Print Book, English, 1993
Vintage International edition
Vintage International, New York, 1993