When We Were Orphans

ISBN: 9780571204403

出版社: Faber and Faber

出版年: 2000

页数: 256

定价: CAD 16.10

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

England, 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. Now, as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realizes that the time has come for him ... more ?to return to the city of his childhood and at last solve the mystery - that only by doing so will the world be saved from the approaching catastrophe.

Moving between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years, When We Were Orphans is a story of remembrance, deception and the longing for home; of a childhood vision of the world surviving deep into adulthood, indelibly shaping and distorting a person's life.

作者简介

石黑一雄，1954年11月8日生于日本长崎，五岁时随其父前往英国定居。迄今共出版六部长篇小说，已被翻译成三十多种语言。其作品题材发人深思，语言简洁、优雅而富有说服力。他的每一部长篇小说都曾获欧美的文学奖项，其中包括一次布克奖（《长日留痕》）和三次布克奖提名，并获大英帝国勋章和法国政府文学和艺术骑士勋章。

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