When We Were Orphans ++++ A SUPERB SIGNED & INSCRIBED US FIRST EDITION - FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK ++++

Kazuo Ishiguro

ISBN 10: 0375410546 / ISBN 13: 9780375410543

Verlag: Knopf, US, 2000

Beschreibung

A fine copy of the US first edition, first printing hardback - in a fine unclipped dustjacket - fitted with a removable, clear mylar sleeve - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR - Pictures available upon request.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003160

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: When We Were Orphans ++++ A SUPERB SIGNED & INSCRIBED US FIRST EDITION - FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK ++++
• Verlag: Knopf, US
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0375410546
• ISBN-13: 9780375410543
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Druck: 1st Printing
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

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Inhaltsangabe

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. 100,000 first printing.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of four previous novels, including The Remains of the Day, an international best-seller that won the Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro's work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1995, he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.