The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize & cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the world's greatest writers David Lodge chairman of the judges in 1989 said it's a cunningly structured & beautifully paced performance This is a haunting evocation of lost causes & lost love & an elegy for England at a time of acute change Ishiguro's work has been translated into more than forty languages & has sold millions of copies worldwide Stevens the long-serving butler of Darlington Hall embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside but also into his own past Reflecting on his years of service he must re-examine his life in the face of changing Britain & question whether his dignity & properness have come at a greater cost to himself