When We Were Orphans - Rilegato

Ishiguro, Kazuo

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ISBN 10: 0375410546 ISBN 13: 9780375410543

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

Riassunto

Sent to live in England after the mysterious disappearance of his parents, Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, returns more than twenty years later to a Shanghai torn apart by the Sino-Japanese war to uncover the truth about the tragedy that transformed his childhood. By the author of The Remains of the Day. 100,000 first printing.

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"One of the finest prose stylists of our time." --Michael Ondaatje

Ishiguro is--an original and remarkable genius." --The New York Times Book Review

L'autore:

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of four previous novels, including The Remains of the Day, an international best-seller that won the Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro's work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1995, he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375410546
• ISBN 13: 9780375410543
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 335