![]() An incredible novel encompassing the wide-ranging effects of class on love, relationships, and self-knowledge, Nobel Prize winner Ishiguro earned the Booker Prize for this work in 1989. When you reach the end, it really does seem as if you've lost a friend" (Beech). Bit by bit you learn to look for the real emotions running beneath the buffed surface of the prose.The Remains of the Day does that most wonderful thing a work of literature can do: it makes you feel you hold a human life in your hands. Ishiguro, instead, likes to give us unwitting narrators: speakers who remain trapped in self-preserving fictions, mysteries even to themselves. Stevens is chief of staff at an English stately home as the novel opens, in the summer of 1956, he is set to undertake a motoring trip to visit Miss Kenton, a housekeeper who left 20 years earlier to get married.Unreliable narrators are ten a penny in fiction. "A lack of restraint is perhaps the best response to Ishiguro's novel, which is the tale of a man so burdened by propriety that he lets the love of his life slip through his fingers. ![]() Fine copy of the book in like jacket jacket. ![]()
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