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Book · 1989 · Fiction

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro
Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 245 pages
★ 7.7 editorial score

Driving across England in 1956 to see the housekeeper he worked beside, a butler remembers the Nazi sympathizer he served with pride. What he cannot bring himself to say is the whole novel.

Genre
Historical fictionComedy of mannersComedy
Medium
Novel
Subject
Social classVocationDignity
Setting
England (United Kingdom)
Time
1989Depicts Interwar PeriodDepicts 20th century

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