of a most impressive novelist.' -Julian BarnesĪbout the Author Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. I couldn't put it down.' -Ann Beattie 'The novel rests firmly on the narrative sophistication and flawless control of tone. put on with dazzling daring and aplomb.' - The New York Review of Books 'A perfect novel. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE - WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE - A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME 'An intricate and dazzling novel.' - The New York Times 'Brilliant and quietly devastating.' - Newsweek 'A virtuoso performance. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's 'greatness,' and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the 'great gentleman,' Lord Darlington. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. 'One of the best books of the year'.- The New York Times Book Review.īook Synopsis BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is 'an intricate and dazzling novel' ( The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. About the Book A profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading insular world in postwar England.

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