When We Were Orphans: Kazuo Ishiguro - Softcover

Ishiguro, Kazuo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571283888 ISBN 13: 9780571283880

Verlag: Faber and Faber, 2021

By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me GoShortlisted for the Booker PrizeEngland, 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.

Críticas:

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)

Biografía del autor:

Kazuo Ishiguro's eight books have won him world-wide renown and many honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Dayand Never Let Me Go have each sold in excess of one million copies in Faber editions alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. His most recent novel, The Buried Giant, was published in 2015, debuting at number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list.