A review by dyingotters
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

emotional funny reflective relaxing

4.5

Though I genuinely could not have cared for the book's premise, I found it to be a thoroughly enjoyable story. The subtle humour and the mundane reminds me a lot of Natsume Soseki's style. One of the best things about this book has to be Stevens himself: I found that I was always kept on edge by his unreliable narration, about other characters and his own character. Nothing is as he describes it - his father was never shown to be as competent as he described, Lord Darlington is not a good or honourable man, and Stevens himself, though always on about work and virtue, is a character bound to be more than an emotionless working machine that he so desperately wants to be. "Day Two - Morning" is one of the most engaging and well-written book chapters I have read in a long time, encompassing everything I liked about this book.