The Remains of the Day
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Publisher
Faber & Faber
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ISBN-13: 9780571225385 ISBN-10: 9780571225385Synopsis
The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer....