FICTION JUNE 2012 Kazuo Ishiguro Man Booker Prize Winner The Remains of the Day From Kazuo Ishiguro, a tragic, spiritual portrait of the perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England. The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world in post-war 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 doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s “greatness” and graver doubts about his own faith in the man he served. MARKETING • The 1993 film adaptation starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson was nominated for 8 Academy Awards

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Read by Simon Prebble “A tour de force—both a compelling psychological study and Category: Fiction/Literary a portrait of a vanished social order.” —Publishers Weekly Running Time: 8 hrs 30 min - Unabridged Paperback: 05/05/1990 (Vintage) “An intricate and dazzling novel.” —The New York Times Territory: US Only “Brilliant and quietly devastating.” —Newsweek On Sale Date: 06/29/2012 Trade 9781452608358 7 Audio CDs $34.99 “A virtuoso performance . . . put on with dazzling daring and Library 9781452638355 7 Audio CDs $71.99 aplomb.” —The New York Review of Books MP3 9781452658353 1 MP3-CD $24.99 “A perfect novel. I couldn’t put it down.” —Ann Beattie “The novel rests firmly on the narrative sophistication and Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of four previous novels, including Never Let Me flawless control of tone . . . of a most impressive novelist.” Go and An Artist of the Floating World, —Julian Barnes which won the Whitbread Award. Author’s residence: London

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