Name: When we Were Orphans: A Novel (Vintage International)
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Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
ISBN: 9780375724404

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When we Were Orphans: A Novel (Vintage International)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Kazuo Ishiguro

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2001

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.4 x 13.3 x 2.1 cm

Weight

0.28 kg.

ISBN

0375724400

ISBN13

9780375724404

Edition No.

Synopsis "When we Were Orphans: A Novel (Vintage International) "

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The 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.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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Kazuo Ishiguro (Kazuo Ishiguro OBE, nacido el 8 de noviembre de 1954 en Nagasaki, Japón) es un novelista británico de origen japonés, reconocido por su estilo sobrio y su exploración de la memoria, el tiempo y la identidad. Se trasladó al Reino Unido en su infancia y estudió en la Universidad de Kent y la Universidad de East Anglia. Desde su debut con A Pale View of Hills (1982), ha construido una obra literaria marcada por narradores introspectivos y estructuras cuidadosamente contenidas, consolidándose como una figura clave de la literatura contemporánea.

Es autor de novelas ampliamente reconocidas como The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go y Klara and the Sun, en las que combina elementos realistas con sutiles incursiones en lo distópico o especulativo. En 2017 recibió el Premio Nobel de Literatura, destacando su capacidad para revelar “el abismo bajo nuestro sentido ilusorio de conexión con el mundo”. Su obra ha sido traducida a numerosos idiomas y varias de sus novelas han sido adaptadas al cine, reforzando su impacto cultural a nivel global.

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