English
Our English-language collection spans over forty thousand titles from publishers across North America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and India. This month's featured selection is "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro, a quietly devastating novel about duty, regret, and the passage of time. Originally published in 1989, it won the Booker Prize and remains one of the most celebrated works of literary fiction in the English language. The prose style is deliberately restrained, mirroring the emotional reserve of its narrator, and the effect is profoundly moving.
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