- Fiction, Private investigators, Missing persons, Death
'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' Sunday TimesEngland, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.
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Grave, prestige, contemplative and meticulous.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- rawmeticulous
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 350
- Publisher
- Faber Paperbacks, Edicions 62, Yi lin chu ban she
- Editions
- 38
- Language
- cat, Japanese, Dutch, Italian
- ISBN
- 9780571205622
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“IT WAS THE SUMMER of 1923, the summer I came down from Cambridge, when despite my aunt's wishes that I return to Shropshire, I decided my future lay in the capital and took up a small flat at Number 14b Bedford Gardens in Kensington.”
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is an English novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five. He is one of the most critically-acclaimed and praised contemporary fiction authors writing in English, being awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its 2017 citation, the Swedish Academy described Ishiguro as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro)
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