{"id":69,"date":"2026-04-25T13:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondreading.skoldpadda.se\/?p=69"},"modified":"2026-04-25T13:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T13:46:37","slug":"kazuo-ishiguro-the-remains-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Kazuo Ishiguro &#8211; The Remains of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE<\/strong><br><br>A contemporary classic,\u00a0<em>The Remains of the Day<\/em>\u00a0is Kazuo Ishiguro&#8217;s beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House.<br><br>In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past.<br><br>&#8216;A triumph . . . This wholly convincing portrait of a human life unweaving before your eyes is inventive and absorbing, by turns funny, absurd and ultimately very moving.&#8217;\u00a0<em>Sunday Times<\/em><br><br>&#8216;A dream of a book: a beguiling comedy of manners that evolves almost magically into a profound and heart-rending study of personality, class and culture.&#8217;\u00a0<em>New York TImes Book Review<\/em><br><br>Text from Amazon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondreading.skoldpadda.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/71HFMIHZeL._SY522_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-70\" style=\"width:173px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Format: Paperback<br>Length: 272 pages<br>Language: English<br>Publisher: Faber &amp; Faber Ltd<br>Publication date: 1989-05-01<br>ISBN: 9780571258246<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE A contemporary classic,\u00a0The Remains of the Day\u00a0is Kazuo Ishiguro&#8217;s beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into &#8230; <a title=\"Kazuo Ishiguro &#8211; The Remains of the Day\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/?p=69\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kazuo Ishiguro &#8211; The Remains of the Day\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,37,11,13,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-english","category-kazuo-ishiguro","category-kazuo-ishiguro-the-remains-of-the-day","category-tore-toread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluefeather.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}