Loving Kazuo Ishiguro Series

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Summary of Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans Publisher's Summary

In 1930s London, a young and promising detective Banks returns to Shanghai in order to find his missing parents. The once-bustling Shanghai of his happy childhood has since transformed into an unrecognizable city rife with danger and mystery. What awaits him there is a dark secret, a cruel truth, and the revelation that his memories may not be as reliable as they seem...

Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born British novelist, also known as one of "The Three Immigrants" in British literature, along with VS Naipaul and Salman Rushdie. In October of 2017, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”. Published and shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2000, When We Were Orphans was Kazuo Ishiguro’s fifth novel.

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