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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Narrator: |
John Lee |
| Fiction Genre: |
True Crime |
| Awards: |
2000 The Man Booker Prize |
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Professional Reviews
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Salon: "There's more than a touch of Kafka in WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS....[T]hings just keep getting queerer as the story goes on, until you start to wonder whether the world contained in the book is more fanciful than it seems, or whether it's going to be revealed at some juncture that Banks is actually writing his memoirs from the day-room of some sort of mental institution. [But] it doesn't end with enough of a Kafkaesque, mythopoetic wallop to make the surprise worth wringing your hands over. The reason to read the book is Ishiguro's gorgeous, perhaps matchless, prose." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Audio - Compact Disc
Publisher: Harperaudio (April 30, 2005)
Measurements: 5.75"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1.25"(d), 0.6 lbs.
ISBN: 9780060824891 |
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First Line
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| Publisher's Note: |
It was the summer of 1923, the summer I came down from Cambridge, when despite my aunt's wishes that I return to Shropshire, I decided my future lay in the capital and took up a small flat at Number 14b Bedford Gardens in Kensington. I remember it now as the most wonderful of summers. |
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In Kazuo Ishiguro's fifth novel, Christopher Banks is an English boy growing up in Shanghai. His parents disappear and are eventually presumed dead, and Christopher is raised in England by an aunt. As an adult, he becomes a prominent detective who returns to Shanghai to try to find out what happened to his family. The fateful year of his return is 1937, when the Japanese massacred 250,000 Chinese, and things become perilous for Banks as he searches through his parents in what has now become a war zone. In the end, he discovers a fact about his past that threatens his entire way of life. As a background to his obsession is his near-romance with a society woman named Sarah, as well as the loss of his friendship with his boyhood playmate, Akira. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000. |
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