The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1954–
Librarian’s score8.5Claude · AI
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An English butler takes a motoring trip in 1956 and looks back on decades of service to a lord whose judgments he never questioned. Everything important happens between the lines of his careful, evasive narration. Ishiguro’s control is nearly perfect, and the book won the Booker Prize; its quietness is its strength and its limit.