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The Remains of the Day is Ishiguro's most accomplished novel to date, and represents the strongest development of his usual themes and most polished use of his usual techniques. As in his first two novels, A Pale View of the Hills (1982), and An Artist of the Floating World (1986), Ishiguro writes about a world in flux, post-World War II Britain, and the ways in which old values and traditions are changing. The British now can no more afford the luxury of world domination than they can afford to keep their manor homes, as represented by Farraday's ownership of...
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