by KazuoIshiguro (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
Edition: Main - Re-issue
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 07 Feb 2013
ISBN 10: 0571283888
ISBN 13: 9780571283880
Book Overview: When We Were Orphans is the a compelling thriller by Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize-winning author ofThe Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and The Buried Giant. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.