Literary Fiction
The Remains of the Day
An impeccable English butler takes a motoring holiday and looks back on a lifetime of service, and on what he never allowed himself to say.
- Shares literary fiction and melancholy with Gilead
- A Concierge Pick
Gilead
Gilead
An elderly Iowa minister writes a long letter to his young son, a meditation on grace, fathers and the ordinary beauty of the world.
- Genres
- Literary Fiction
- Themes
- FaithFamilyMemory
- Length
- Under 300 pages
- Featured in
- Short & Perfect
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