The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the DayBy: Kazuo Ishiguro Series: Vintage International BOOKER PRIZE WINNER From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is an intricate and dazzling novel (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive,

一九八五年，龍應台出版《野火集》，以野火燎原之姿，燃動整個社會，創下二十一天內重印二十四次，四個月賣出十萬本的空前記錄。緊接著，台灣在一九八七年解嚴，一九八八年開放報禁，社會運動如春草茁生，政治鬆開了緊緊扼住喉管的手，迎來全民發聲的時代。

a prospect that horrifies her

Black-and-white artwork is accented with blue

and on Bring-your-pet-to-school Day she introduces everyone to her very DIFFERENT pet…

Fifty years later

Earth and space

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Although I’m giving serious consideration to just one

Photographs and photorealistic artwork will transport young readers onto the Titanic

熱鬧非凡的小鎮慶典，屁屁偵探盛裝出擊！

slotting it into the book's special frame and pressing an illustration to hear the word read aloud

' suitable for readers 7+