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England in den Dreißigerjahren. Christopher Banks ist ein erfolgreicher Detektiv, doch es gibt einen Fall, den er noch nicht lösen konnte, der ihn quält und bis in seine Träume verfolgt: das Rätsel um das Verschwinden seiner Eltern. Beide sind vor vielen Jahren in Shanghai gekidnappt worden, wo sie anscheinend in den illegalen Opiumhandel verstrickt waren. Kann es sein, dass Banks es nur deshalb zu derart grandioser kriminalistischer Meisterschaft gebracht hat, um endlich aufklären zu können, was damals mit seinen Eltern geschah?

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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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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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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

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Ishiguro, Kazuo
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight works of fiction have earned him many awards and honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go were made into acclaimed films. Ishiguro also writes screenplays and song lyrics. He was given a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l´Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan.

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