About the book
Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 novel is narrated by Stevens, the long-serving butler of Darlington Hall, a stately home in England. In the summer of 1956 he takes a few days off to drive through the English countryside to see a woman he once worked with, and on the road he looks back on the 1920s and 1930s, when he served Lord Darlington. He hopes to reassure himself that in serving Lord Darlington he served a great gentleman. It won the Booker Prize in 1989 and was made into a film in 1993.
Jeff Bezos counts it among his favorite books, saying that reading it is like spending 10 hours living another life and coming away having learned about regret.
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Jeff Bezos (CEO/Amazon)
If you read The Remains of the Day, which is one of my favorite books, you can't help but come away and think, I just spent 10 hours living an alternate life and I learned something about life and about regret. You can't do that in a blog post.
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