When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

About this book

'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.

Subjects

  • autores japoneses
  • british
  • death
  • detective and mystery stories
  • detectives
  • detectives privados
  • english literature
  • ficción
  • fiction
  • fiction, general
  • fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • fiction, psychological
  • literatura inglesa
  • literature
  • literature and fiction, mystery and suspense
  • manners and customs
  • mémoire
  • missing persons
  • missing persons, fiction
  • muerte
  • novela
  • novela inglesa
  • novela policíaca
  • novela psicología
  • novelas japonesas
  • orphans
  • orphelins
  • padres de familia
  • parents
  • personas desaparecidas
  • private investigators
  • private investigators, fiction
  • psychic trauma in children
  • psychological aspects
  • psychological fiction
  • psychology
  • roman
  • roman policier
  • shanghai (china), fiction
  • social life and customs