When We Were Orphans

When We Were Orphans

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prizewinning 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 tw......
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<b>From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel <i>The Remains of the Day</i> comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. </b><br> <br> 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. <br><br>Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, <i>When We Were Orphans </i>offers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility
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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.

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Når fantasi møter virkelighet: When We Were Orphans

Oppdag et mesterverk fra Nobelprisvinneren i litteratur, Kazuo Ishiguro, kjent for sitt gripende språk og dype karakterstudier. 'When We Were Orphans' tar deg med på en reise tilbake til tidlig 1900-talls Shanghai, en by full av minner og mysterier.

En historie om tap og søken etter sannhet

Bli kjent med Christopher Banks, en vellykket detektiv i London som i ung alder mistet foreldrene sine under mystiske omstendigheter. Nå, over tyve år senere, returnerer han til sine barndomsminner i Shanghai for å avdekke hva som skjedde med dem. Dette er ikke bare en spennende thriller; det er en profond refleksjon over minne og identitet.

Hvorfor du bør lese When We Were Orphans

  • Engasjerende karakterer: Følg Banks' følelsesmessige reise i et land preget av krig og kaos.
  • Atmosfærisk setting: Ishiguros descriptive språk gir liv til det kulturelt rike Shanghai, fylt med mystikk.
  • Tankevekkende temaer: Utforsk hvordan minner former våre liv og søker etter sannhet kan være en smertefull, men nødvendig reise.

Med 'When We Were Orphans,' får du ikke bare en engrossing historie, men en dyptgående refleksjon over menneskets tilstand. Hvem kan motstå å dykke ned i en verden der minner og virkelighet ofte kolliderer? Dette er en bok du ikke vil gå glipp av!

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