'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 …
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'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.
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When We Were Orphans
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English language
Published Jan. 8, 2001 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
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- 978-0-375-41265-3Copied ISBN!
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When we were orphans
313 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 2000 by Faber and Faber.
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- 978-0-571-20384-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 43341621
When We Were Orphans
Paperback, 320 pages
Published March 3, 2005 by Faber and Faber.
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When we were orphans
256 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 2000 by Faber.
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- 978-0-571-20562-2Copied ISBN!
When We Were Orphans
352 pages
English language
Published Oct. 30, 2001 by Vintage.
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- 978-0-375-72440-4Copied ISBN!
When we were orphans
335 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 2000 by A.A. Knopf.
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- 978-0-375-41054-3Copied ISBN!
When we were orphans
336 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 2000 by A.A. Knopf.
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- 978-0-375-72440-4Copied ISBN!
When We Were Orphans
320 pages
English language
Published April 5, 2012 by Faber & Faber, Limited.
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- 978-0-571-28388-0Copied ISBN!
When We Were Orphans
eBook
English language
Published Jan. 8, 2009 by Faber and Faber Ltd.
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- 978-0-571-24937-4Copied ISBN!
When we were orphans
313 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 2000 by A.A. Knopf Canada.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-676-97305-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 43277477
When we were orphans
313 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 2001 by Vintage Canada.
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- 978-0-676-97306-8Copied ISBN!
Shanghai gu er
321 pages
Chinese language
Published Jan. 8, 2002 by Yi lin chu ban she.
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- 978-7-80657-314-3Copied ISBN!
Als wir Waisen waren
348 pages
German language
Published Jan. 8, 2000 by Albrecht Knaus.
When we were orphans
Published Jan. 8, 2000 by unknown.
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