The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Remains of the Day
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrator: Nicholas Guy Smith

Unabridged: 9 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/15/2019

Synopsis

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.
 
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

About The Author

Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have sold more than 1 million copies, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro's other work includes The Buried Giant, Nocturnes, A Pale View of the Hills, and An Artist of the Floating World.Nicholas Guy Smith is an award-winning audiobook narrator and a much sought-after voice actor for film trailers, commercials, and documentaries. He has voiced characters for Disney, Warner Bros., Universal, and the Cartoon Network. A postgraduate of Cambridge University, he resides in Los Angeles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin on July 04, 2021

"When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery." -Maxim Gorky. I bought this novel in tandem with Never Let Me Go, a book so tedious that I abandoned it, preferring instead to watch paint dry. Nevertheless, I was prepared to give Ishiguro the benefit of the doubt, wip......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on April 16, 2020

So Ishiguro has won the noble prize for literature 2017. This quote from the yeasterday's guardian article says it all to me: The British author Kazuo Ishiguro said he was both honoured and “taken completely by surprise” after he was named this year’s winner of the 2017 Nobel prize in literature, eve......more

Goodreads review by emma on March 23, 2024

I am going to take legal action against the entire world. For YEARS, I disliked tons of books. My resting state was neutrality, at best. When I four-starred a book, people cheered in the streets and small nations declared the day a bank holiday. And people would always say, "emma, you need to figure......more

Quotes

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE • WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME

“An intricate and dazzling novel.” —The New York Times

“Brilliant and quietly devastating.” —Newsweek

“A virtuoso performance ... put on with dazzling daring and aplomb.” —The New York Review of Books

“A perfect novel. I couldn’t put it down.” —Ann Beattie

“The novel rests firmly on the narrative sophistication and flawless control of tone ... of a most impressive novelist.” —Julian Barnes

Awards

  • Booker Prize
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