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The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989

★★★★½ 4.5/5 · ALLO'S PICK
An English butler drives across the countryside revisiting his life's decisions and finding in every memory what he lost. Ishiguro's prose is so controlled the devastation comes as a slow leak.
Allo's take
The finest novel about self-deception I know. The unreliable narrator has never been deployed this quietly or to such devastating effect.
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