Guanyador del Booker Prize l’any 1989 ha donat a conèixer a Kazuo Ishiguro com un dels autors contemporanis més importants.

Stevens, el majordom de Darlington Hall comença unes vacances que el portaran a explorar el seu passat. Una meditació sobre la condició de l’home modern i una elegia per a Anglaterra en un moment de canvi agut.

In 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England. A past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and a love between the butler and his housekeeper. Ishiguro’s dazzling novel is a sad and humorous love story. A meditation on the condition of modern man, and an elegy for England at a time of acute change.