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The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • FINISHED
  • Finished December 2021
  • First published 1989

fiction literary fiction

An aging English butler takes a road trip in 1956 and thinks back over decades of service at a great house.   His memories show how loyalty and restraint shaped his life and cost him a chance at love.