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When we were orphans

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*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeEngland, 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 interwar years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return. 'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' John Carey, Sunday Times'Ishiguro is the best and most original novelist of his generation and When We Were Orphans could be by no other writer.

It haunts the mind. It moves to tears.' Susan Hill, Mail on Sunday'Discloses a writer not only near the height of his powers but in a league all of his own.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent

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Faber & Faber
0571283888 / 9780571283880
Paperback / softback
823.92
07/02/2013
United Kingdom
English
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313 pages
20 cm
Quiz No: 203751, Points 18.00, Book Level 6.90,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: 2000.