When We Were Orphans
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Publishing year : October 2013
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9780571283880
- Imprint : Faber & Faber
- Age Group : Adult
- Language : English
Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeEngland, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, hi ...
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
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 interwar years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.
Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, including the international bestsellers The Remains of the Day (winner of the Booker Prize) and Never Let Me Go. He received an OBE for service to literature and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
