When We Were Orphans

By Kazuo Ishiguro

Subjects: Personas desaparecidas, Shanghai (china), fiction, Missing persons, fiction, Novela, Muerte, Death, Literature, Fiction, general, Psychological fiction, Autores japoneses, Detectives privados, Parents, Private investigators, fiction, Detectives, Manners and customs, Psychic trauma in children, Novela inglesa, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Psychological aspects, Missing persons, Roman, Roman policier, Fiction, Orphelins, Social life and customs, Orphans, British, Novela psicología, English literature, NOVELAS JAPONESAS, Fiction, psychological, Padres de familia, Psychology, Ficción, Literature and fiction, mystery and suspense, Literatura inglesa, Novela policíaca, Private investigators, Detective and mystery stories, Mémoire

Description: 'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' Sunday TimesEngland, 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.