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The Remains of the Day by: Kazuo Ishiguro List Price: £7.99 City Travel Guides Price: £4.94 You Save: £3.05 (38%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780571225385 ISBN: 0571225381 Label: Faber and Faber Manufacturer: Faber and Faber Number Of Pages: 272 Publication Date: March 03, 2005 Publisher: Faber and Faber Studio: Faber and Faber Sales Rank: 798 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - My favourite book of all timeI read this book on a long plane journey back from Hong Kong when I was 18. Though I had been in Asia for 9 months, I was immediately thrust back into the pre-world war II of gentrified England; stultified, polite and controlled. It astounds me how Japanese-born Ishiguro creates so well the character of Stevens, the middle-aged painfully correct and repressed butler. You bleed for him as his own inhibitions hold him back from criticising his master and accepting he is in love. One of the final scenes in Weymouth makes me cry everytime. It is Stevens realisation of all he has loved and lost and nothing I have read since has ever been able to compare to that bitter-sweet tang of understanding that it is too late to try again. ... Read More: Rating: - Beautiful, touching, heart-breaking. Simply wonderful. I have read this book four or five times now. I recently purchased the book again. The brilliance of The Remains of the Day is illustrated by the fact that you can read it several times and the poignancy and emotional evocation hit with the same force as reading for the first time. The book opens with a prologue that centres on the theme of bantering - which is quite simply brilliant in the way it probes and makes real issues of culture and meaning, and the difficulties inherent in stepping into different worlds. The rest of the book is simply beautiful, moving and real to an extent that is very rarely reached. I am hardly ever touched on a deep emotional level by novels but this book tears me apart every time. Reading it makes me want ... Read More: Rating: - Touching and beautifulIt was an impulse read after seeing the movie. What a dear book! It's been a long time since I really enjoyed reading and I read a lot but what I mean is deriving almost physical pleasure from beautiful and eloquent language, and taking time over a book unfolding the characters. One cannot fail to be moved by the story and it certainly made me want to re-assess the certain priorities. My favourite scene is towards the end when Miss Kenton confesses that the reason she was unhappy with her marriage is because she often wondered what kind of a life she might have had with him, Stevens, it's absolutely breathtaking. Why or why do we waste opportunities..... Rating: - A compelling readI read this book as part of my university course and really enjoyed it. the main character, Stevens, is flawed and he does not even realise it. most of the time he seems completely detached from his emotions but that is part of his appeal. by the end of the novel you really are rooting for him, hoping that his journey, both physically and retrospectively, have made a difference to him and his life. some people in my class did not like this but i found it really enjoyable, one of those books that just flew by, definitely worth a look. Rating:  - Quiet, economical but excellentTold in the first person by Stevens, the butler of Darlington Hall, this is a very quiet, economically written book that's a thoroughly absorbing read. The story itself revolves around a journey - Stevens has been lent a car by his employer, the American Mr Farraday, and told to take a vacation. He is travelling to the West Country to visit his friend, Miss Kenton (now Mrs Benn) who used to work as a housekeeper at Darlington Hall. His purpose in the visit is to ask her to consider returning to the Hall to take up a position there, as the staff levels at the Hall are so reduced that he's taken on too many duties himself and is painfully aware that he is not meeting his usual standards. As the journey progresses, Stevens starts ... Read More: |
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