When We Were Orphans (First American Edition)

Kazuo Ishiguro

ISBN 10: 0375410546 / ISBN 13: 9780375410543

Published by Knopf (New York), 2000

About this Item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. First American edition, first printing. Hardcover. Quarter brown cloth over cream paper-covered boards, with gilt spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher s original price intact on jacket flap ($25.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy with no faults. Octavo, 336 pages. Jacket design by Barbara de Wilde. When We Were Orphans follows Christopher Banks, a celebrated English detective, who returns to Shanghai in the 1930s to unravel the mystery of his parents' disappearance during his childhood. Ishiguro (b. 1954) won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 and has had multiple novels adapted to film. This was his fifth novel, written after the Booker Prize winning "The Remains of the Day" (1989) and before "Never Let Me Go" (2005). Rear Copies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When We Were Orphans (First American Edition)
• Publisher: Knopf (New York)
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375410546
• ISBN 13: 9780375410543
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nobel Prize in Literature

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Synopsis

Sent to live in England after the mysterious disappearance of his parents, Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early twentieth-century Shanghai, returns more than twenty years later to a Shanghai torn apart by the Sino-Japanese war to uncover the truth about the tragedy that transformed his childhood. By the author of The Remains of the Day. 100,000 first printing.

About the Author

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of four previous novels, including The Remains of the Day, an international best-seller that won the Booker Prize and was adapted into an award-winning film. Ishiguro's work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1995, he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.