Remains Of The Day: Booker Prize Winner 1989
Rs. 2,790.00
Kazuo Ishiguro
- 1989 BOOKER PRIZE WINNER
- A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME
“An intricate and dazzling novel.” —The New York Times
“A perfect novel. I couldn’t put it down.” —Ann Beattie
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England.
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About the Author
Kazuo Ishiguro is a celebrated novelist. His novels have all won him awards. A Pale View Of Hills won him the Winifred Holtby Prize, An Artist Of The Floating World won him the Whitbread Book of the Year Award, the Primio Scanno, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize). The Unconsoled was the winner of the Cheltenham Prize, and When We Were Orphans and Never Let Me Go were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He received the French decoration of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and an OBE for Services to Literature.
Book Specifications
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Published Year: 1989
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571258246
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