The Booker jury got it right. This is a work that goes to the heart of a lost life. Beautifully composed, totally unsentimental, immeasurably tender. (Harold Pinter Observer Books of the Year)
The Remains of the Day is without doubt a novel of real quality. . . He has poured light into a life that has been closed by the emotional shortcomings of the character. The result is very English: the pathos is that of Brief Encounter or of the plays of Terence Rattigan . . . A remarkable, strange and moving book. (Sebastian Faulks Independent)
An intricate and dazzling novel. (New York Times)
Apart from being suspenseful, intriguing, elegiac and politically astute, this is also the funniest new novel I've read in ages. . . It is both subtle and humane . . . Simply read it for pleasure, and be richly rewarded. (Jonathan Coe Guardian Novel of the Week)
A remarkable, strange and moving book. (Independent)
A triumph ... This wholly convincing portrait of a human life unweaving before your eyes is inventive and absorbing, by turns funny, absurd, and ultimately very moving. (Sunday Times)
A dream of a book: a beguiling comedy of manners that evolves almost magically into a profound and heart-rending study of personality, class and culture. (New York Times Book Review) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
About the Author
Kazuo Ishiguro's seven published books have won him wide renown and many honours around the world. His work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have each sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies in Faber editions alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. His latest novel is The Buried Giant.