The Remains of the Day Ausgezeichnet: Man Booker Prize, 1989

Stevens has been working at Darlington hall as a butler for decades when his previous employer dies. His new employer grants him his first vacation which he decides to take across Britain's West Country. As he sets out, Stevens starts to reflect on what being a good butler means to him and his past work in regards to that. It is slowly revealed that Stevens has sacrificed any moral values and personal attachments in pursuit of servitude. Kazuo Ishiguro delivers a master class in an unreliable narrator. Stevens serves as a moratorium on the British past and its servile domestic underclass with their delusions of participation in their master's glory.