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KAZUO ISHIGURO - GEBRAUCHT WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS...

* Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available *    Shortlisted for the Booker
Prize   England  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 London and Shanghai of the interwar years  When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story
of memory  intrigue and the need to return.  'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it
is extending the possibilities of fiction.' John Carey  Sunday Times    '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   'Discloses a
writer not only near the height of his powers but in a league all of his own.' Boyd Tonkin 
Independent

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