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An edition of When We Were Orphans (2000)

When we were orphans

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Christopher Banks, an English boy who was orphaned after his parents disappeared in Shanghai under suspicious circumstances, returns to Shanghai twenty years later in the hopes of learning what really happened to his parents.

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Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
335

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Subjects
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, Orphelins
Places
China, Shanghai (China), Shanghai, Great Britain
Times
20th century
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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.914
Library of Congress
PR6059.S5 W47 2001x

The Physical Object

Pagination
335 p. ;
Number of pages
335

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24636330M
ISBN 10
0375724400
ISBN 13
9780375724404
OCLC/WorldCat
48432151
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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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