Les vestiges du jour

Name: Les vestiges du jour
Brand: Ishiguro, Kazuo
SKU: GD-9780571258246
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Rating: 4.2 (2030 reviews)

4.2

(2030)

Le Pitch

Dans ce roman, Kazuo Ishiguro dresse le portrait de Stevens, un majordome anglais dévoué qui, après des années au service d'un homme politique influent, remet en question le sens de son dévouement. Partant en voyage, il se remémore son passé et les choix qui ont guidé sa vie. Au fil des souvenirs, se dessine le portrait d'un homme en proie au doute et à la solitude, cherchant à préserver sa dignité coûte que coûte. Une réflexion subtile sur le devoir, l'amour et les illusions de la classe aristocratique. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

Contenu

4ème de couverture

'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?'In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past...A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.The Remains of the Day is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.Biographie de l'auteurKazuo Ishiguro's eight books have won him world-wide renown and many honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have each sold in excess of one million copies in Faber editions alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. His most recent novel, The Buried Giant, was published in 2015, debuting at Number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list.

Ishiguro, Kazuo

Les vestiges du jour

4.2

(2030)

9,95 €

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Le Pitch

Dans ce roman, Kazuo Ishiguro dresse le portrait de Stevens, un majordome anglais dévoué qui, après des années au service d'un homme politique influent, remet en question le sens de son dévouement. Partant en voyage, il se remémore son passé et les choix qui ont guidé sa vie. Au fil des souvenirs, se dessine le portrait d'un homme en proie au doute et à la solitude, cherchant à préserver sa dignité coûte que coûte. Une réflexion subtile sur le devoir, l'amour et les illusions de la classe aristocratique. Afficher moinsAfficher plus

Détails du livre

Titre complet

Penguin Random House The Remains of the Day: Booker Prize Winner 1989

Auteur

Editeur

Format

Broché

Publication

01 avril 2010

Pages

272

Taille

19.4 x 11.6 x 1.8 cm

Poids

214

ISBN-13

9780571258246

Contenu

4ème de couverture

'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?'In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past...A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.The Remains of the Day is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.Biographie de l'auteurKazuo Ishiguro's eight books have won him world-wide renown and many honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have each sold in excess of one million copies in Faber editions alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. His most recent novel, The Buried Giant, was published in 2015, debuting at Number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list.