The Antioch Review, June 22nd, 2001
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro. Knopf, 336 pp. $25.00. Nominated for Booker and Whitbread prizes, this novel is--on the surface--an adventure story about a famous detective who solves an intriguing mystery. The novel opens in London in 1923 as the young narrator-protagonist, Christopher Banks, described as an "odd bird" by a former classmate, makes his way into London society to begin his career. Christopher's desire to be a detective derives from the tragic story of his childhood in colonial Shanghai, where he is orphaned at the age of six by the mysterious disappearance of his pare...
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