Kazuo Ishiguro and Oscar Hijuelos

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 1990

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Remains of the Day; The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

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0:00.0	You are a human animal.
0:07.9	You are a very special breed.
0:11.8	Or you are the only animal.
0:15.4	Who can think, who can reason, who can read?
0:19.4	Hi, this is Michael Silverbladden.
0:21.6	This is Bookworm.
0:22.9	My first guest today is Casual Ishiguro.
0:26.4	My second guest will be Oscar Iguelos.
0:30.1	Ishiguro is the novelist who recently wrote The Remains of the Day,
0:36.2	published by Alfred A. Knopf.
0:38.7	Some of you may remember that he has been on the show before,
0:42.2	and it's because I love this book that I have chosen to talk to him again.
0:49.9	The novel is about a butler in the days after the fall of the English butler, ruminating
1:01.0	about his service for Lord Darlington and about the kind of world that has produced him and
1:08.4	now to some extent ejected him.
1:15.5	This book is also about love in a sense and in some way the unexpressed love for
1:24.3	Miss Kenton.
1:25.3	The, what is her post?
1:27.4	She's a housekeeper. Well, she was a housekeeper. love for Miss Kenton, the, what is her post?
1:29.1	She's a housekeeper.
1:30.7	Well, she was a housekeeper.
1:35.8	And he's thought of her for many, many years after she's left the house,
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