When We Were Orphans

Name: When We Were Orphans
ISBN: 9780571225408

Kazuo Ishiguro

2000·335 pages

Historical Fiction Mystery

atmospheric colonialism family dynamics fish out of water haunting hidden past

Booker Prize (2000) · Nominee

“You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.”
— Sunday Times

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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