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When We Were Orphans by Ishiguro, Kazuo is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is When We Were Orphans about?

Kazuo Ishiguro’s adventurous combination of historical fiction and detective story, set largely in England and Shanghai of the 1930s."With the detective peering through his metaphorical magnifying glass as the globe plunges towards a conflagration, the novel probes, with growing absurdity, the wounds of childhood as they drive and distort adulthood - at the cost of intimacy, family and personal happiness." - Maya Jaggi, The GuardianIn 1930s England, Christopher Banks has become the country’s most celebrated detective; his cases are 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 boy. As the world lurches towards war, Banks realises the time has come for him to return to the city of his childhood and at last to solve the mystery - and believes that only by his doing so will civilization be saved from approaching catastrophe."...with When We Were Orphans, Ishiguro appears to have found his synthesis, not only in its expansive yet finely modulated narrative but also in the way it bends the hallucinatory world of its immediate predecessor toward the surface verisimilitude of the butl

Who reads When We Were Orphans?

Author

Ishiguro, Kazuo

Publisher

Vintage Books / Random House

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375412653

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Mystery, Historical Fiction, Historical

Rating

3.45 / 5 (268 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13