Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber And Faber Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571249350
• Artikelnr.: 38221174

Autorenporträt

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His nine works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, both made into acclaimed films, have each sold over a million copies in Faber editions. He received a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan. His latest novel, Klara and the Sun, was published in 2021.

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Rezensionen

An era revealed in a perfect butler's imperfections The New York Times