When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination.

Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own, painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition-and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him.

Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one's past.

The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro in 2017. More than 40 languages have been translated into his works. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have both sold over a million copies and have been made into critically acclaimed films. Nocturnes, A Pale View of the Hills, and An Artist of the Floating World are among Ishiguro's other works.

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ISBN 13	9780375410543
ISBN 10	0375410546
Title	When We Were Orphans
Author	Kazuo Ishiguro
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2000-09-12
Number of pages	352
Prizes	Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 2000, Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 2000
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