When We Were Orphans

Ishiguro, Kazuo

ISBN 10: 0375410546 / ISBN 13: 9780375410543

Published by Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

About this Item

Stated first American edition. Book in FINE condition. Unclipped jacket protected, in mylar, also in FINE condition. Flat-signed by Ishiguro on the title page. Highly collectible.

Seller Inventory # 001570

Bibliographic Details

• Title: When We Were Orphans
• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375410546
• ISBN 13: 9780375410543
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

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.