First published in Great Britain in 1989 by Faber and Faber. Published in the Faber Library edition in 1996. This edition first published in 1999. London: Faber and Faber 1989/1999. Paperback, 258 pages.
Cover photograph © Ken Smith/Photonica. Cover design by Pentagram.

I remember buing the Finnish translation, Pitkän päivän ilta as a present to my mother soon after it was published in 1990. We both read it then – and both loved it too. I’d like to read the book also in its original language, but there are so many unread books in my shelves...

Man Booker Prize for Fiction 1989

Front cover:
’There is nobody writing in Britain today who quite resembles him.’ Daily Telegraph

Back cover:
’The Remains of the Day is a dream of a book: a beguiling comedy of manners that evolves almost magically into a profound and heart-rending study of personality, class and culture.’ New York Times Book Review
In 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper. Ishiguro’s dazzling novel is a sad and humorous love story, a meditation on the condition of modern man, and an elegy for England at a time of acute change. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1989, The Remains of the Day was subsequently made into a successful film.
’A remarkable, strange and moving book.’ Independent

About the author:
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and came to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of four novels: A Pale View of Hills (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Premio Scanno, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (1989, winner of the Booker Prize) and The Unconsoled (1995, winner of the Cheltenham Prize).
Kazuo Ishiguro’s work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. The Remains of the Day became an international bestseller, with over a million copies sold in the English language alone, and was adapted into an award-winning film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
In 1995 Ishiguro received an OBE for Services to Literature, and in 1998 the French decoration of Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Kazuo Ishiguro at Wikipedia
Kazuo Ishiguro: Facts at NobelPrize.org
Kazuo Ishiguro: Biobibliographical Notes at NobelPrize.org
The Remains of the Day at Wikipedia
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro – a subtle masterpiece of quiet desperation at The Guardian

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I'm offering this book in greenbadger's One book a month thread this month. For the time being, The Remains of the Day is reserved.

And now the book has started its journey to Switzerland. Happy reading, Ydam21!

Le livre est bien arrivé ainsi qu'un marque-page fait mains. Merci beaucoup Tarna. Quel plaisir !
The book was waiting for me in the letterbox. ;-)
Thank you so much for posting it to Switzerland with it's lovely handmade bookmark. (Very special as it comes from so far away)
And the stamps on the enveloppe are really beautiful !

Superbe writing. Reading this book is like eating good chocolate. Sooo enjoyable !

It isn't a new book, the paper is yellowing, but it is so beautifully written that you won't mind !
Ce livre a fait une étape chez moi. Je vous le confie, son voyage continue entre vos mains. Bonne lecture !

Pris à la réunion mensuelle de janvier!