English Literature / Unit 17 ENL 1632 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Kazuo Ishiguro
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The idea
Kazuo Ishiguro, born in Nagasaki in nineteen fifty-four, moved to Britain at five and won the Nobel Prize in two thousand seventeen. In The Remains of the Day, of nineteen eighty-nine, Stevens, a butler at Darlington Hall, takes a motoring holiday in nineteen fifty-six and reminisces about his service.
In practice
A butler's memories.
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