'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.
Shanghai gu er
This book might be part of the Wai guo wen xue zui xin jia zuo cong shu series.
Kazuo Ishiguro: Shanghai gu er (Chinese language, 2002, Yi lin chu ban she)
321 pages
Chinese language
Published Jan. 8, 2002 by Yi lin chu ban she.
Subjects
- Parents -- Death -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction
- British -- China -- Shanghai -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Shanghai (China) -- Fiction
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