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• Few books have gripped and moved me as much as this wonderful book about loss and longing. The pace is perfect, the language is refined and the emotions are subtle. This is truly a literary masterpiece.

  5.00 out of 5

  poojapillai

• This could be the perfect, short, first-person novel. It can’t be more than 70k words, yet it says so much. The voice of Stevens the butler is perfect, as is his questioning of his past while he professes to be so proud of it.I only wish that I had read it before seeing the movie. I can’t tell if my love of the book has been influenced by the images from the movie. They are both excellent.

  5.00 out of 5

  samfsmith

• Sad, moving story of lost love and missed chances, and a world lost forever in the ashes of WW2. A beautiful story beautifully told.

  5.00 out of 5

  bostonbibliophile

• The first few chapters left me flummoxed as to why this is considered such a classic, but then I suddenly "got" the degree to which Stevens is an unreliable narrator. Ishiguro has created a web which forces the reader to try to untangle to what degrees Stevens is unaware of his own emotions, suppresses those emotions, and simply hides them in his narration -- and the degree to which those are even separate things. And once we understand the understatement involved, the result is deeply moving and even heartrending.

  5.00 out of 5

  llasram

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