Book description
'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the
possibilities of fiction.' Sunday Times England, 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. 'Ishiguro is the best and most
original writer of his generation, and When We Were Orphans could be
by no other writer. It haunts the mind. It moves to tears.' Mail on
Sunday 'When We Were Orphans discloses a writer not only near the
height of his powers but in a league all of his own.' Independent 'His
fullest achievement yet.' New York Times Review of Books
Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, A Pale View of Hills
(1982, Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (1986,
Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Premio Scanno, shortlisted for the
Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (1989, winner of the Booker
Prize), The Unconsoled (1995, winner of the Cheltenham Prize), When We
Were Orphans (2000, shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Never Let Me
Go (2005, shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize). He received an OBE for
Services to Literature in 1995, and the French decoration of Chevalier
de l Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998.
