The Remains of the Day

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Synopsis: Stevens, an impeccable, quintessential English butler, embarks on a motoring trip through the West Country, on an odyssey that evokes disturbing memories of his thirty years of service to Lord Darlington and of the housekeeper, Miss Kenton.
Comments: Great book. Superb and disturbing psychological study of absolute fidelity to an ideal and a way of life. Much better than the 1993 film adaptation by James Ivory(with Anthony Hopkins and as Stevens and Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton).