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A Butler, who does not want to give anything away, tells his tale
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The upstairs/downstairs world of English aristocracy has not stopped fascinating people. Quite a while before Julian Fellowes profited from that by creating "Gosford Park" und "Downton Abbey", Kazuo Ishiguro gifted us with "The Remains of the Day". Mostly the books consists of flashbacks in the mind of butler Stevens while he is... The upstairs/downstairs world of English aristocracy has not stopped fascinating people. Quite a while before Julian Fellowes profited from that by creating "Gosford Park" und "Downton Abbey", Kazuo Ishiguro gifted us with "The Remains of the Day". Mostly the books consists of flashbacks in the mind of butler Stevens while he is on his way to find out whether the erstwhile housekeeper Miss Kenton is willing to return to the manor. It is fascinating how well the book works even though it is told complete from Stevens' point of view, who is a frustrating narrator. He acts on the maxim that a butler in his personality is less significant than a butler in his role, and that is something he also keeps up with the reader. That means that while Stevens presents to us what happens, his evaluations only cover manners, not emotional revelations. Still Ishiguro manages to allow the reader to look behind the facade, as he makes plain what is going on below Stevens' surface. As a reader there are times when you want to shake him and scream "do something", and I am sure Miss Kenton feels similarly. In spite of this frustrating component, "The Remains of the Day" is a book that also serves a good helping of humor and is quite a lovely book.
The Remains of the Day
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Beschreibung
*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available to preorder*
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go
Winner of the Booker Prize
ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'
A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House.
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past.
Kazuo Ishiguro's eight books have won him world-wide renown and many honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Dayand Never Let Me Go have each sold in excess of one million copies in Faber editions alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. His most recent novel, The Buried Giant, was published in 2015, debuting at number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list.
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| Format | ePUB i |
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| Kopierschutz | Ja i |
| Family Sharing | Nein i |
| Text-to-Speech | Nein i |
| Seitenzahl | 272 (Printausgabe) |
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.01.2009 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
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| EAN | 9780571249350 |
| Verlag | Faber & Faber |
| Dateigröße | 1060 KB |
| Verkaufsrang | 26906 |