LibGuides: Booker Prize for Fiction: 1989

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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro; John Sutherland (Introduction by); Salman Rushdie (Introduction by)
Call Number: Fiction I79r (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780307961440
Publication Date: 2012-10-02
Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
The Remains of the Day [Kindle] by Kazuo Ishiguro
Call Number: Kindle-661
ISBN: 9780679731726
Publication Date: 1990-09-12

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
Call Number: Fiction A887c (Adult Fiction)
ISBN: 9780385260077
Publication Date: 1989-01-17
Painter Elaine Risley, pushing fifty, returns to Toronto for a retrospective of her celebrated work. While there she takes time to confront her past.

The Book of Evidence [Kindle] by John Banville
Call Number: Kindle-0404 (Request at Circulation Desk)
ISBN: 9780307817129
Publication Date: 2001
Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife and child are held as collateral, he returns to Ireland to secure funds. That pursuit leads to murder. And here is his attempt to present evidence, not of his innocence, but of his life, of the events that lead to the murder he committed because he could. Like a hero out of Nabokov or Camus, Montgomery is a chillingly articulate, self-aware, and amoral being, whose humanity is painfully on display.