When We Were Orphans by Kazuo IshiguroAlfred A. Knopf, 2000 (originally Faber and Faber)

Narrative restraint; a narrator who’s unreliable because memory is unreliable, and memory that’s unreliable for so many reasons —distance, pride—and what happens when that unreliability affects everyday events, when it affects what happens now and not just how we remember things. This is an elegant book, a quiet book, also perhaps a sad book, in the moments when the reader sees what the narrator doesn’t.