Los restos del dia / The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Los restos del dia / The Remains of the Day
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Country
United States
Published
6 February 2018
Pages
256
ISBN
9780525563747

Los restos del dia / The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Inglaterra, julio de 1956. Stevens, el narrador, fue durante treinta anos mayordomo de Lord Darlington, quien murio hace tres anos, y su propiedad pertenece ahora a un norteamericano. Su nuevo patron regresara por unas semanas a su pais, y le ha ofrecido al mayordomo el auto para que disfrute de unas vacaciones. Y Stevens se embarca en un viaje por el pais rumbo a Weymouth, donde vive la senora Benn, antigua ama de llaves de Darlington Hall. Jornada a jornada, Ishiguro desplegara ante el lector una novela perfecta de luces y claroscuros para desvelar una realidad mucho mas amarga que los amables paisajes que el mayordomo deja atras. Porque Stevens averigua que Lord Darlington fue un miembro de la clase dirigente inglesa que se dejo seducir por el fascismo y conspiro activamente para conseguir una alianza entre Inglaterra y Alemania. Y descubre, y tambien el lector, que hay algo peor incluso que haber servido a un hombre indigno.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is the
universally acclaimed novel-winner of the Booker Prize and the basis for an
award-winning film.

This is Kazuo Ishiguro’s profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the
perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II
England. 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.

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