The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving “a great gentleman.” But lurking in his memory are do…
The Remains of The Day adalah novel karya Kazuo Ishiguro yang berhasil memenangi penghargaan Booker Prize (1989), salah satu ajang penghargaan paling bergengsi untuk buku-buku sastra (fiksi) yang ditulis dalam bahasa Inggris. Kazuo memang keturunan Jepang. Ia lahir di Nagasaki, Jepang, pada 1954, tetapi sejak usia lima tahun, bersama orang tuanya ia pindah dan kemudian menetap di Inggris. Telah…