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When We Were Orphans: Kazuo Ishiguro

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Synopsis:

England, 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 inter-war years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

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Categorised as:

Fiction

Sub-categories:

General Fiction

Places:

London; Shanghai

Genres & Themes:

Colonialism; Detectives; Recollection; War