Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Translator: Eun-gyeong Song
Publisher: Minumsa
Hardcover | 388 pages | 127*188mm | 543 g
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About This Book
A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his
reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. A wonderful,
wonderful book!
The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to
give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing,
almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the
second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on
around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat
employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at
stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own
ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly
repressed existence.
"An intricate and dazzling novel." --The New York Times
"Brilliant and quietly devastating." --Newsweek
"A virtuoso performance ... put on with dazzling daring and aplomb."
--The New York Review of Books
"A perfect novel. I couldnt put it down." --Ann Beattie
"The novel rests firmly on the narrative sophistication and flawless
control of tone ... of a most impressive novelist." --Julian Barnes
About the Author
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved
to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of five novels,
including The Remains of the Day, an international bestseller that won
the Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro's
work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1995, he
received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and
in 1998 was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the
French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
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