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Where would we be without books?

Where would we be without good?

No, Timberd.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we be without books? This is Michael rhetorical question, sir, but where would we be without books?

This is Michael Silverblatt, and welcome to Bookworm.

Kazuo Ishiguro is this year's Nobel Prize laureate for literature.

We've been digging into the Bookworm Archive,

and today we'll be showcasing excerpts from 25 years of bookworm

conversations with Mr. Ishiguro. In 1990, we discussed his Booker Prize-winning novel,

The Remains of the Day. The novel is about a butler in the days after the fall of the English butler, ruminating

about his service for Lord Darlington and about the kind of world that has produced him

and now to some extent ejected him.

Um, this book is also about love in a sense and in some way the unexpressed love for Miss Kenton.

The, what is her post?

She's a housekeeper.

Well, she was a housekeeper.

And he's thought of her for many, many years after she's left the house,

has tried to think of some way to bring her back, and now he thinks he's found one.

His unexpressed love for Miss Darlington mirrors perhaps his inexpressible

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