1989 The Remains of the Day

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, With Dustwrapper

The first edition, fourth impression of this work.

Signed by the author to the title page

This novel won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989.

In the original unclipped dustwrapper, with 'Booker Shortlisted' sticker to the front wrap.

'The Remains of the Day' is a novel that follows to live of Stevens, a butler who works at Darlington Hall, a stately home near Oxford. In the mid 1950s, he embarks on a road trip, and reminiscences on the events at Darlington Hall in the 1920s and 30s.

Written by Kazuo Ishiguro, who is one of the most celebrated contemporary authors, reviewing four Man Booker Prize nominations. Besides 'The Remains of the Day', his most successful novel of 'Never Let Me Go'. Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017.