When we were Orphans
Synopsis
It is 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 small boy. Now as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realizes that the time has come for him to return to the city of his childhood and at last solve the mystery – that only by doing so will civilization be saved from approaching catastrophe.
Author Biography
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in November 1954 but moved to Britain in 1960. He won the Booker Prize in 1989 with The Remains of the Day, and was shortlisted in 1986 for An Artist of the Floating World, in 2000 for When We Were Orphans and in 2005 for Never Let Me Go. 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. He lives in London.
