Ishiguro, Kazuo,  1954-, <br/><br/>
The remains of the day /Kazuo Ishiguro. 

 - first Vintage international edition. 
 - New York :  Vintage Books,  (c)1990. 
 - 245 pages ;  21 cm. 
 - Vintage international .
<br/><br/> "Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Ltd., London, and in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1989"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/> 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 -- 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780394251349 9780679731726 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>90050177 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Country homes--Fiction.<br/>Household employees--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6059  / .R463 1990