A compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world in postwar 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 has served.

About the Author
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in November 1954 but moved to Britain in 1960. He won the Booker Prize in 1989 with The Remains of the Day, and was shortlisted in 1986 for An Artist of the Floating World, in 2000 for When We Were Orphans and in 2005 for Never Let Me Go. He received an OBE for Services to Literature in 1995, and the French decoration of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998. He lives in London.