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The 12 pages that link to The Remains of the Day, each with the reason it gives.

• Booker PrizeBroader topic: Its 1989 win illustrates the prize’s recognition of restrained historical fiction.

• First-person narrativeBroader topic: Stevens’s restrained account reveals tensions between his stated recollections and their implications.

• Narrative voiceBroader topic: Stevens’s restrained narration reveals more than he consciously acknowledges.

• Literary FictionBroader topic: Its restrained first-person voice gradually exposes self-deception and regret.

• Anthony HopkinsBroader topic: Hopkins’s restrained performance as Stevens earned him an Academy Award nomination.

• Emma ThompsonRelated: Thompson plays Miss Kenton opposite Anthony Hopkins in this acclaimed literary adaptation.

• Psychological FictionBroader topic: Stevens’s controlled account gradually exposes feelings and choices he cannot acknowledge directly.

• Psychological novelBroader topic: Stevens’s restrained narration reveals feelings he cannot readily acknowledge.

• Brief EncounterCompared with: Its suppressed attachment echoes the film’s concern with feelings sacrificed to duty.

• Kazuo IshiguroBroader topic: Its restrained narrator and reckoning with loyalty became defining features of Ishiguro’s fiction.

• The SeaCompared with: Both novels use restrained first-person retrospection, but Ishiguro centers duty and self-deception.

• Hugh GrantBroader topic: Grant's supporting role brought him attention shortly before his breakthrough.