When We Were Orphans
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(4 ratings)64 pages2009Faber and Faber LtdISBN 9780571249374
FictionPrivate investigatorsMissing personsDeathBritishParentsPsychological fictionPsychologyOrphansDetective and mystery storiesDetectivesPsychological aspectsSocial life and customsLiteratureManners and customsPsychic trauma in childrenFiction, generalEnglish literatureNovela psicologíaPadres de familia
About this book
'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.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Ltd
- Published
- 2009
- Pages
- 64
- ISBN
- 9780571249374
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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