Description
A first edition, first printing of The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro published by Faber, London in 1989. A near fine book without inscriptions with some pushing to the upper corners of the front and rear borads. In a near fine unclipped wrapper, pushing to the upper knuckles of front and rear flap folds, some spotting to the rear flap fold.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro follows Stevens, an ageing English butler who looks back on his years of service at Darlington Hall. During a motoring trip, he reflects on loyalty, duty, missed opportunities and his restrained feelings for former housekeeper Miss Kenton. Quiet, elegant and deeply moving, the novel explores memory, regret, class and self-deception, gradually revealing the personal cost of Stevens’s devotion to professionalism and unquestioning service above his own emotional life.
