Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Finalist for the National Book Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books “A great American novel
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The Remains of the Day, Kazua Ishiguro fashion & design Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeIn the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.