Still easily one of the most brilliant novels I’ve ever read, now twice. I am often on the lookout not only for good novel, which I like of course, but perfect novels. This is a perfect novel. If you’ve never read it, Stevens is a butler from a fine old English estate. It’s after the war now though and what was once the stately manor has been sold off to a rich American, who wanted one of those famous kinds of butlers. We learn early […]
The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro