The Remains of the Day

　　石黑一雄的長日將盡(The Remains of The Day)其實是大英帝國貴族統治階級沒落的一首輓歌，含蓄而隱隱作痛。石黑巧妙地藉著英國貴族僕役長的回想，探討二次世界大戰對英國的影響：貴族統治的沒落，新富階級的興起。本書中譯本由皇冠出版。

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is＂an intricate and dazzling novel＂ (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.

This is Kazuo Ishiguro’s profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the ＂great gentleman,＂ Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington’s ＂greatness,＂ and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have sold more than 1 million copies, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro’s other work includes The Buried Giant, Nocturnes, A Pale View of the Hills, and An Artist of the Floating World.