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#AdventOfBooks 2024 Day 2: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro #bookstodon

The story of the butler Stevens, and his life in service at Darlington Hall, told as he drives through England, remembering his time with the late Lord Darlington

What makes the book is the tension between what a cold and dignified Stevens narrates and what we infer must have happened, as well as what we can infer about Stevens' relationship with the people around him, and about the character of his employer