The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's p
lace as one of the world's greatest writers. David Lodge, chairman of the judges
in 1989, said, it's "a cunningly structured and beautifully paced performance".
This is a haunting evocation of lost causes and lost love, and an elegy for Eng
land at a time of acute change.
Ishiguro's work has been translated into more
than forty languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide. Stevens, the lo
ng-serving butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will t
ake him deep into the countryside, but also into his own past. Reflecting on his
years of service, he must re-examine his life in the face of changing Britain,
and question whether his dignity and properness have come at a greater cost to h
imself.
