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by Kazuo Ishiguro
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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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Fiction, Private investigators, Missing persons, Death, British, Parents, Psychological fiction, Psychology, Orphans, Detective and mystery stories, Detectives, Psychological aspects, Social life and customs, Literature, Manners and customs, Psychic trauma in children, Fiction, general, English literature, Novela psicología, Padres de familia, Detectives privados, Novela policíaca, Ficción, Muerte, Novela inglesa, Autores japoneses, Novela, Personas desaparecidas, Literatura inglesa, NOVELAS JAPONESAS, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, psychological, Shanghai (china), fiction, Missing persons, fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Literature and fiction, mystery and suspense, Roman policier, Mémoire, Roman, OrphelinsPlaces
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Quand Nous Etions Orpheli
May 30, 2003, Editions Plume,France
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When we were orphans
2000, Faber and Faber, Faber & Faber Ltd, Faber Paperbacks
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Translation of: When we were orphans.
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