A review by kay_ness
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

5.0

Others have written much more eloquent reviews of this book than I could, so I won’t even try. ‘The Remains of the Day’ will stay with me for a long time. Ishiguro’s gentle, beautifully crafted writing is a joy, as is the slow unfolding of the story, with, at its heart, the perfectly formed tragic figure of Stevens and his eventual realisation that with different choices his life could have been very different. In Ishiguro’s hands, Stevens is so real that I do hope that he found that ‘the evening’s the best part of the day’.