Read an extract from The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Ishiguro’s 1989 Booker Prize-winning novel is a comedy of manners that meditates on duty, repressed desire and self-sacrifice. Read an extract from March’s Monthly Spotlight here
Monthly Spotlight: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The winner of the 1989 Booker Prize, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro’s moving portrait of the perfect English butler, his loyalty and his fading, insular world in post-war England
Kazuo Ishiguro’s third novel is one of the most highly regarded post-war British novels, selling over two million copies. It was adapted for film in 1993, in a production starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, which was nominated for eight Academy Awards. Ishiguro’s works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature. The award described Ishiguro as a writer ‘who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world’.
From reading guides and extracts to illuminating features, find out more about our March Monthly Spotlight here.
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.