The remains of the day

The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

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An eerie take on the coming-of-age theme. Ishiguro expertly combines speculative fiction and literary fiction to great effect. I talked about my love for this one in Volume III of One Great Book. Haunting and atmospheric, with a sad truth that dawns on you gradually. Ishiguro slowly introduces the reader to three teens in a 1990s British boarding school. His prose says so much while revealing so little, as it slowly dawns on the reader what is not-quite-right about these children's lives.

Anthony Hopkins

A Room With a View, 1987

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'Utterly gripping' - The Guardian 'Fascinating' - The Sunday Times 'Moving' - Scotsman 'Engrossing' - Financial Times Sue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. In All That Remains she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know…

The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro

by Kazuo Ishiguro, translated by Masao TsuchiyaThis was the first time I read a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, and I have to say it was absolutely beautiful. Though I read the Japanese translated version, descriptions of the beautiful views in England, subtle yet intelligible narration by the butler astonishingly translated by Tsuchiya is most definitely equally sensational as the original text. Watching the film adaptation after reading the novel, I have to say I prefer the novel yet I definitely…

Remains of the day

the remains of the day (1993) dir by james ivory

"No passion had ever touched him, for this was what passion meant; he had survived and maundered and pined, but where had been_his_ deep ravage?" __Henry James, The Beast in The Jungle Photo credit: "Remains of the Day" - Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson