From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of
the Day" "comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in
early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of
nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more
than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London
society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame
has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents'
alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine
city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own,
painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond
recognition-and that his own recollections are proving as difficult
to trust as the people around him. Masterful, suspenseful and
psychologically acute, When We Were Orphans" "offers a profound
meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility
of avenging one's past.
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