The Remains of the Day.

ISHIGURO, Kazuo.

Item Number: 145152

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1989.

First edition, first printing  of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original boards. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Creasing to the corners of the front panel of the book and jacket. Light rubbing to the extremities of the dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Sam McConnell. Author photograph by Nigel Parry.

The same subtlety and grace, and the same slow bloom of revelation with which Kazuro Ishiguro evoked his native Japan in An Artist of the Floating World (winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year award for 1986), abound here in The Remains of the Day, set in his adopted England. But the specific England of this wonderfully offbeat and beautifully realized novel is the insular, fading world of the perfect English butler. The novel received the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989. A film adaptation of the novel, made in 1993 and starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, was nominated for eight Academy Awards.