When We Were Orphans: Kazuo Ishiguro - Brossura

Ishiguro, Kazuo

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ISBN 10: 0571283888 ISBN 13: 9780571283880

Casa editrice: Faber and Faber, 2013

Riassunto

By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go Shortlisted for the Booker Prize England, the 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 inter-war London and Shanghai, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

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Recensione:

Ishiguro is the best and most original novelist of his generation, and When We Were Orphans could be by no other writer. It haunts the mind. It moves to tears. (Susan Hill Mail on Sunday)

When We Were Orphans discloses a writer not only near the height of his powers but in a league all of his own. (Boyd Tonkin Independent)

You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction. (John Carey Sunday Times)

His fullest achievement yet. (Michael Gorra New York Times Book Review)

An imaginative work of surpassing intelligence and taste. (Joyce Carol Oates Times Literary Supplement)

Descrizione del libro:

When We Were Orphans is the a compelling thriller by Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize-winning author ofThe Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and The Buried Giant. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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• Editore: Faber and Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0571283888
• ISBN 13: 9780571283880
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 320