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The Remains of the Day Author: [British] Kazuo Ishiguro Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
The Remains of the Day Author: [British] Kazuo Ishiguro Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
★A representative work of 2017 Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro and Booker Prize-winning novel
★The Day Is Over, a Lament for the Decline of an Empire, a Love That Passed by
★The movie of the same name (also translated as "Farewell to Love") was nominated for multiple Oscars and British Academy Film Awards.
Starring British actor Anthony Hopkins and talented actress Emma Thompson
The Remains of the Day is the 1989 Booker Prize-winning work of Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, and is also Kazuo Ishiguro's most important representative work. The novel begins with the memories of butler Stevens, telling about his experiences in serving Lord Darlington for more than 30 years; although he reached the peak of his career, Stevens suppressed his emotions too coldly and pursued perfect performance of his duties, and missed the last meeting with his father before his death, and then missed love. Through the protagonist's memories, the novel unravels a person's life journey in front of the readers, and also reflects the international political landscape during the extraordinary period between World War I and World War II.
The 1993 film adaptation of the novel of the same name (also known as "The Goodbye, Peter Pan"), starring famous British actors Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, received eight Oscar nominations and six British Academy Film Awards nominations, becoming a classic in film history.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japanese-British novelist, was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954. He is known as the "three great immigrants in British literature" together with Naipaul and Rushdie. Kazuo Ishiguro does not have many works, but almost every one of his works has won important literary awards: "A Pale Shadow of Hills" won the Winifred Holby Memorial Award, "A Painter of the Floating World" won the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, "The Remains of the Day" won the Booker Prize, "Inconsolable" won the Cheltenham Prize for Literature and Arts, and "A Painter of the Floating World", "Orphans" and "Never Forgotten" were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize; in 1995, the Queen of England awarded Kazuo Ishiguro the Order of the British Empire in the field of literature, and in 1998 he was awarded the French Order of Arts and Letters. In 2017, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "exploring the abyss hidden beneath our illusory connection with the world with its tremendous emotional power."
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