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When We Were Orphans
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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 interwar years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.
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- Mohammad
- 06-03-24
Story, not to my expectations.
Having read and became an ardent admirer of Ishiguru after 'Remains of the Day', I found this book not to my expectations.
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- ar
- 26-02-21
Brilliant
Kazuo ishiguro is a very fine writer. His grasp of the English language and brilliant story telling deserves so much praise, yet again.
When We Were Orphans, is about Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai. He is orphaned at age nine when his mother and father both vanish under suspicious circumstances. Sent to live in England, he grows up to become a renowned detective and, more than twenty years later, returns to Shanghai, where the Sino-Japanese War is raging, to solve the mystery of the disappearances.
The story is straightforward in the beginning and is told as narrated by Christopher, as he recollects events from his childhood leading upto the disappearances of his parents. In this, the absolute innocence with which a child views the world is brought about endearingly. That a child remembers events through rose tinted glasses and it is the wish of a parent that their child always continue to do so, even as an adult, is brought out subtly but beautifully. Within the layers of this narrative it is slowly revealed what he can't, or won't, see, despite what he wants to believe, as the many complicated truths about being an adult are unraveled.
What strikes me most is the insight into the characters in all of Ishiguro's writing which comes out starkly, even when written in a detached manner. Definitely, one of my fav authors.
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