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When We Were Orphans
- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrator
- Michael Maloney
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Publish Date
- 18 September 2014
- Run Time
- 10 hours 5 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
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- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrator
- Michael Maloney
- Duration
- 10 hours 5 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 September 2014
- ISBN
- 9780571322985
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Crime and / or mystery fiction
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
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 inter-war years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.
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