When We Were Orphans

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

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  • : 24.99 AUD
  • : 9780571283880
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
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  • : January 2013
  • : 198mm X 126mm
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  • : Kazuo Ishiguro
  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9780571283880
9780571283880

Description

By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go Shortlisted for the Booker Prize England, the 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 inter-war London and Shanghai, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

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A novel of memory and loss, set between London of the 1930s and Shanghai between the wars.