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短い旅に出た老執事が、美しい田園風景の道すがら回想する、古き良き時代の英国。長年仕えた先代の主人への敬慕、執事の規範のような亡父、女中頭に寄せた淡い想い、両次大戦間に邸内で催された重要な外交会議の数々―。全ては遠い過去と消えたが、二度と戻らぬ時ゆえに、それは一層輝きを増して胸に生き続ける。英国の神髄を描いて静かな感動を呼んだ、英国最高の文学賞ブッカー賞受賞作品。
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The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.
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