The Remains of the Day
Admirers of Kazuo Ishiguro’s moving historical fiction, which was adapted into an Oscar-winning screenplay, include Salman Rushdie. Discover more about this superb 1989 Booker-winning novel.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro’s works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He was born in Nagasaki, Japan and moved to Britain at the age of five. His work has been translated into over 50 languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go were both made into acclaimed films, and have each sold more than 2 million copies. Ishiguro was awarded a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan.
In a time of dangerously increasing division, we must listen. Good writing and good reading will break down barriers.
— Kazuo Ishiguro speaking upon award of The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2017
Watch the 1989 ceremony
Listen to Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation with Adam Buxton
Adam talks with British writer Kazuo Ishiguro (Remains Of the Day, Never Let Me Go, The Buried Giant, Klara and the Sun) about sci-fi, artificial intelligence, the nature of emotions and whether an AI Rosie would be as good as the real thing.
Recorded remotely on 7th December, 2020
Winner The Booker Prize 1989
- By
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Published by
- Faber & Faber
Kazuo Ishiguro’s moving portrait of the perfect English butler, his loyalty and his fading, insular world in post-war England.
Other nominated books
Kazuo Ishiguro examines guilt, truth and ageing through the highly subjective reminiscences of a retired painter in post-war Japan.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s adventurous combination of historical fiction and detective story, set largely in England and Shanghai of the 1930s.
Thought-provoking and unsettling by turns, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel gradually unveils the true nature of three children’s apparently happy childhoods.
Longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2021. Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly-changing world through the eyes of a unique narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
