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'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' Sunday TimesEngland, 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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Fiction, Private investigators, Missing persons, Death, British, Parents, Psychological fiction, Psychology, Orphans, Detective and mystery stories, Detectives, Psychological aspects, Social life and customs, Literature, Manners and customs, Psychic trauma in children, Fiction, general, English literature, Novela psicología, Padres de familia, Detectives privados, Novela policíaca, Ficción, Muerte, Novela inglesa, Autores japoneses, Novela, Personas desaparecidas, Literatura inglesa, NOVELAS JAPONESAS, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, psychological, Shanghai (china), fiction, Missing persons, fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Literature and fiction, mystery and suspense, Roman policier, Mémoire, Roman, OrphelinsPlaces
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When We Were Orphans
Apr 01, 2019, Shanghai Translation Publishing House
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When We Were Orphans
March 3, 2005, Faber and Faber
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When We Were Orphans CD
March 29, 2005, HarperAudio
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Quand Nous Etions Orpheli
May 30, 2003, Editions Plume,France
Hardcover
in French
2702132162 9782702132166
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Quand Nous Etions Orphelins
July 2002, 10-18
Mass Market Paperback
in French
2264033746 9782264033741
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Als Wir Waisen Waren
September 1, 2002, Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag GmbH
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in German
3442729815 9783442729814
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When We Were Orphans
2001, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Electronic resource
in English
0375412654 9780375412653
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When We Were Orphans, Books On Tape
2000, Books on Tape, Inc.
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in English
- Collector's Edition
073666176X 9780736661768
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When we were orphans
2000, Faber and Faber, Faber & Faber Ltd, Faber Paperbacks
in English
0571203841 9780571203840
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