313 pages
English language
Published April 12, 2000 by Faber and Faber, Faber & Faber Ltd, Faber Paperbacks.
When we were orphans
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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.
Subjects
- Orphans -- Psychology -- Fiction
- Detectives -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- Great Britain -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Shanghai (China) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction