This is a pretty quiet tale of a man who feels guilty about supporting the Japanese regime which took Japan into WWII. The man is an artist who helped with propaganda posters and now has serious misgivings about his success, but has no clue how to get past his past.

An English butler wraps his entire self into being a perfect butler and inadvertently forgets to have a life while pursuing his life. Along the way, he is tested by having to support and serve (without question or doubt) a lord who advocates what would be disastrous policies for Britain. Quiet, slow, like the movie. A mood book. Well written.