When We Were Orphans CD
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(4 ratings)64 pages2005HarperAudioISBN 9780060824891
FictionPrivate investigatorsMissing personsDeathBritishParentsPsychological fictionPsychologyOrphansDetective and mystery storiesDetectivesPsychological aspectsSocial life and customsLiteratureManners and customsPsychic trauma in childrenFiction, generalEnglish literatureNovela psicologíaPadres de familia
About this book
<p>A masterful novel from one of the most admired writers of our time.</p><p>Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances. He grows up to become a renowned detective, and more than 20 years later, returns to Shanghai to solve the mystery of the disappearances.</p><p>Within the layers of the narrative told in Christopher's precise, slightly detached voice are revealed what he can't, or wont, see: that the simplest desires—a child's for his parents, a man's for understanding—may give rise to the most complicated truths.</p><p>A feat of narrative skill and soaring imagination, When We Were Orphans is Kazuo Ishiguro at his brilliant best.</p><p>Performed by John Lee</p>
Publication Details
- Publisher
- HarperAudio
- Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 64
- ISBN
- 9780060824891
- Language
- en
About Unknown Author
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL (/kæˈzuːoʊ ˌɪʃɪˈɡʊəroʊ, ˈkæzuoʊ -/ kaz-OO-oh ISH-ig-OOR-oh, KAZ-oo-oh -; 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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