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.