When We Were Orphans

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.

De autorul laureat al Premiului Nobel a cartii The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, pe lista scurta pentru Booker Prize, Anglia, anii 1930. Miscandu-se intre Londra interbelica si Shanghai, When We Were Orphans este o poveste remarcabila despre memorie, intrigi si nevoia de a ne intoarce.