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The remains of the day book reviews7/8/2023 ![]() It’s not quite a satire, but it is definitely a multilayered critique, while also being an entirely sincere and sad book about an aging butler in 1956. The Remains of the Day is a strange book, and a brilliant one too. Reading his book The Remains of the Day recently, I realized that he’d long ago learned Britishisms, or more specifically, Englishisms, to an intensely precise degree. His accent was so extremely British that I was surprised-I knew he’d moved to England from Japan as a youth, and had been expecting some vestiges of a different kind of accent. He had a commanding presence and his reading was slow and deliberate and beautiful. ![]() The Remains of the Day b y Kazuo Ishiguro - Ilana Masadīack when The Buried Giant was published, I went to see Kazuo Ishiguro read at the 92 nd Street Y in New York City. ![]()
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