When we were orphans
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Word Count
83,750 words, Guess
Page Count
335 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewhenwewereorphan00ishi
- ISBN-100375724400
- ISBN-139780375724404
- OCLC Control Number48432151
- Better World Books9780375724404
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- Open LibraryOL24636330M
Classifications
- DDC823.914
- LCCPR6059.S5 W47 2001x
Description
'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' Sunday TimesEngland, 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. Moving between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.
Description
Christopher Banks, an English boy who was orphaned after his parents disappeared in Shanghai under suspicious circumstances, returns to Shanghai twenty years later in the hopes of learning what really happened to his parents.
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