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When We Were Orphans

✍ Scribed by Kazuo Ishiguro

Publisher: Faber & Faber
Year: 2000;2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 183 KB
Edition: Main
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

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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