When We Were Orphans (Knopf, 2000)

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British writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 1989 Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day , which sold over a million copies in English alone and was the basis of a film starring Anthony Hopkins. Now When We Were Orphans , his extraordinary fifth novel, has been called "his fullest achievement yet" ( The New York Times Book Review ) and placed him again on the Booker shortlist. A complex, intelligent, subtle and restrained psychological novel built along the lines of a detective story, it confirms Ishiguro as one of the most important writers in English today. London's Sunday Times said: "You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction." The novel takes us to Shanghai in the late 1930s, with English detective Christopher Banks bent on solving the mystery that has plagued him all his life: the disappearance of his parents when he was eight. By his own account, he is now a celebrated gentleman sleuth, the...