The Remains of the Day
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Nobel Prize in Literature | 2017 | Winner |
About This Book
Stevens, an ageing English butler who has dedicated his life to the service of Darlington Hall, embarks on a rare motoring trip to visit a former colleague. As he travels, he reflects on his career and his life—on the nature of dignity, on the master he served who may have been a Nazi sympathiser, and on the love he suppressed. Winner of the Booker Prize 1989 and Ishiguro's most celebrated novel.
About the Author
Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born British novelist born on 8 November 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan, who moved to Britain in 1960. Educated at the University of Kent and the University of East Anglia's creative writing programme, he achieved international acclaim with The Remains of the Day (1989), which won the Booker Prize and was adapted into a celebrated 1993 film. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 for novels 'revealing the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world,' and was knighted in 2018. Read more →
