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3 · 350 pages · First published 2000
'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.
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Subjects
FictionPrivate investigatorsMissing personsDeathBritishParentsPsychological fictionPsychologyOrphansDetective and mystery storiesDetectivesPsychological aspectsSocial life and customsLiteratureManners and customsPsychic trauma in childrenFiction, generalEnglish literatureNovela psicologíaPadres de familia
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- Faber Paperbacks, Edicions 62, Yi lin chu ban she, Books on Tape, Inc., Faber, Editions Plume,France
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- cat, jpn, dut, ita, tur, chi, ger, fre