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A contemporary classic, the remains of the day is kazuo ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a great english house, of lost causes and lost lovesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop hertford *kazuo ishiguro's new novel klara and the sun is now available to preorder*winner of the booker prize by the nobel-prize winning authorone of the bbc's '100 novels that shaped our world'in the summer of , stevens, the ageing butler of darlington hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past
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Oxfam shop kendal writer alex garland adapts kazuo ishiguro's novel for the big screen with this fantasy drama directed by mark romanekas the former classmates journey into their shared past, painful memories of love, jealousy and betrayal are brought to the surface, and the sinister secret at the heart of their unusual upbringing is finally revealedsee oxfam website for delivery information read morecase and disk are in good conditioncarey mulligan, keira knightley and andrew garfield star respectively as kathy, ruth and tommy, three childhood friends who reunite as adults to look back on their days at hailsham, a seemingly idyllic but markedly offbeat boarding school in rural england
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The trajectory in between illustrates that the detective and mystery genres continue unabated their stock yellowface characters, who exude a magnetic field so powerful as to pull in japanese animethis universal drive to fashion a foil is ingrained in any will to power, so much so that even millennial china creates an "off-yellow," darker-hued orient in huallywood films to silhouette its global ascentoff-white or yellow-ish characters and their foreign-sounding speech are thus performed in anglo-american fiction and visual culture; both yellowface and chinglish are of, for, by the (white) peopleoff-white interrogates seminal anglo-american fiction and film on off-white bodies and voicessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit commences with one nobel laureate, pearl buck, and ends with another, kazuo ishiguro, almost a century laterthroughout this wish fulfillment, writers lean on grammatical and conceptual frameworks of their mother tongue to represent an alien land and its yellowface aliensoxfam bookshop byres road how do english-speaking novelists and filmmakers tell stories of china from a chinese perspective? how do they keep up appearances of pseudo-sino immanence while ventriloquizing solely in the english language? anglo writers and their readers join in this century-old game of impersonating and dubbing chinese
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A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, the remains of the day, winner of the booker prize, contains ishiguro's now celebrated evocation of life between the wars in a great english house - within its walls can be heard ever more distinct echoes of the violent upheavals spreading across europesee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop cheltenham in the summer of , stevens, the ageing butler of darlington hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the english countryside and into his past
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Hardcover first uk edition (faber and faber, ), first printing, in the rarer first state (butler and tanner listed as printers)are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiisihguro's second bookcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storenot ex library, not a book club, no remainder mark, dust jacket not price clippedplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitefine in fine jacket
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Library, not a book club, no remainder mark, in original first state jacket, price clippedare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikifine in a near fine jacketcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablehardcover uk first edition (faber and faber, ), first impression (no other printings listed)our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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' in a sublime short story collection, kazuo ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of timefrom the piazzas of italy to the malvern hills, a london flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoninggentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme: the struggle to keep alive a sense of life's romance, even as one gets older, relationships flounder and youthful hopes recedeoxfam bookshop bloomsbury street signed by the author! 'it was our third time playing the godfather theme since lunchsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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