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An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.

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石黑一雄曾有多部小说获奖,包括《山影淡淡》(1982)、《浮世绘大师》(1986)、《长日留痕》(1989)以及《不能安慰的人》(1995)。其2000年最新力作《上海孤儿》也已被列入布克奖的候选名单。