Ishiguro’s third novel, The Remains of the Day (1989), abandons Japanese themes to focus more closely on English life. An international bestseller, it won the coveted Booker Prize in 1989, consolidating Ishiguro’s critical reputation as one of Britain’s most promising young authors.
Britain and Germany between two world wars. In World War I (1914-18), Britain and France, along with their allies, triumphed over the so-called Central Powers, led by Germany and her neighbor, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Some 10 million soldiers died during a war that deeply shocked both combatants and noncombatants alike because of its brutality and scope. Virtually an entire generation of young European men was wiped out by the carnage. Europe, it was thought, had fought, “the war to end all wars.” Yet the scale and horror of World War I were dwarfed by World War II (1939-45), in which approximately 50 million people died around the world. More civilians than soldiers were killed, including some six million Jews targeted for genocide by the German Nazi government, and over 100,000 Japanese incinerated by the two American atomic bombs dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (many more were maimed or poisoned by the blasts).
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