When We Were Orphans: A Novel (Vintage International) - Softcover

Ishiguro, Kazuo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375724400 ISBN 13: 9780375724404

Verlag: Vintage, 2001

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Book by Ishiguro Kazuo

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Críticas:

"Swift, compelling, moving, irresistible."
--The Baltimore Sun

"Goes much further than even The Remains of the Day in its examination of the roles we've had handed to us... His fullest achievement yet."
--The New York Times Book Review

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

"Poignant... When We Were Orphans may well be Ishiguro's most capacious book so far."
--Pico Iyer, The New York Review of Books

"[A]n imaginative work of surpassing intelligence and taste."
--Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement

"With his characteristic finesse, Mr. Ishiguro infuses what seems like a classic adventure story with an ineffable tinge of strangeness."
--The Wall Street Journal

Reseña del editor:

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. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375724400
• ISBN 13: 9780375724404
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352