Word: ishiguro
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...REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf; $18.95). It is 1956, and an aging English butler looks back on his decades of service in a stately house. The meaning of his memories is not always clear to him, but it is to the reader, thanks to Japanese-born novelist Ishiguro's deadly, deadpan dissection of the British class system...
...REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguro; Knopf; 245 pages...
This fantasy, not to mention the reality it enhances, pays little heed to the army of underlings who made these idle splendors possible. In The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro tries to right that imbalance: he reconstructs in fiction the world of a stately home in its heyday, between the two world wars, from the point of view of a butler...
...Ishiguro's mastery of this subject and its proper tone are uncanny. Born in | Nagasaki in 1954, he was brought to England with his family six years later and educated there. His two earlier novels were set in Japan, but this one displays a sure grasp of another island culture -- England's -- that has been notoriously impervious to outsiders and immigrants. Furthermore, the young author writes with assurance about events that took place before he was born, and he does so in the utterly convincing voice of an aging Englishman...