The Remains Of The Day

Cover for 'The Remains Of The Day'

About this book

An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.

Publishers

  • Original publisher English (UK & Commonwealth): Faber & Faber
  • English (US): Alfred A. Knopf
  • English (Canada): Folio Society
  • Albanian: Pegi
  • Arabic: The Supreme Council of Culture
  • Bulgarian: Mediasat Eastern Europe Kft
  • Catalan: Ediciones 62
  • Chinese: Yilin Press
  • Danish: Gyldendal
  • Dutch: Atlas
  • Estonian: Tanapaev
  • Finnish: Tammi
  • French: 10/18
  • French: Calmann-Lévy
  • French: GLM (Le Grand Livre du Mois)
  • German: Cornelsen
  • German: Random House
  • Hebrew: Kinneret-Zmora Bitan -Dvir Publishing House
  • Icelandic: Blindrabokasafnio
  • Icelandic: Bokautgafan Bjartur
  • Indonesian: Mizan Pustaka
  • Italian: Einaudi
  • Japanese: Hayakawa Publishing
  • Korean: Golden Bough
  • Latvian: Zvaigzne ABC
  • Polish: Wydawnictwo Albatros
  • Portuguese: Companhia das Letras
  • Portuguese: Gradiva
  • Portuguese: Planeta de Agostini
  • Portuguese (Brazil): Editora Rocco Ltda
  • Romanian: Editura Polirom
  • Russian: Eksmo
  • Spanish: Anagrama
  • Spanish: Ediciones Orbis
  • Spanish: Grijalbo Mondadori
  • Swedish: Wahlström & Widstrand
  • Thai: Amarin
  • Turkish: Merkez Kitaplar
  • Ukrainian: Old Lion

About the client & agent

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