The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro • 1989
Devastation Rating
loss love literary fiction philosophical
Our Take
Stevens is the most heartbreaking man in English fiction, and he would hate you for saying so. A whole life of dignity that turns out to be a whole life of waste. The love he never names, the regret he cannot admit — Ishiguro makes repression feel like slow drowning.
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