When we were orphans
(Audiobook CD)

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[M] Ishiguro
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Audiobook CD
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9 audio discs (approximately 10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English

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John Lee, reader.
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The maze of human memory--the ways in which we accommodate and alter it, deceive and deliver ourselves with it--is territory that Kazuo Ishiguro has made his own. In his previous novels, he has explored this inner world and its manifestations in the lives of his characters with rare inventiveness and subtlety, shrewd humor and insight. In When We Were Orphans, his first novel in five years, he returns to this terrain in a brilliantly realized story that illuminates the power of one's past to determine the present. Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when his mother and father both vanish under suspicious circumstances. Sent to live in England, he grows up to become a renowned detective and, more than twenty years later, returns to Shanghai, where the Sino-Japanese War is raging, to solve the mystery of the disappearances. The story is straightforward. Its telling is remarkable. Christopher's voice is controlled, detailed, and detached, its precision unsurprising in someone who has devoted his life to the examination of details and the rigors of objective thought. But within the layers of his narrative is slowly revealed what he can't, or won't, see: that his memory, despite what he wants to believe, is not unaffected by his childhood tragedies; that his powers of perception, the heralded clarity of his vision, can be blinding as well as enlightening; and that the simplest desires--a child's for his parents, a man's for understanding--may give rise to the most complicated truths.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Ishiguro, K., & Lee, J. R. (2000). When we were orphans (Library edition). Books on Tape.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- and John Rafter, Lee. 2000. When We Were Orphans. Books on Tape.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- and John Rafter, Lee. When We Were Orphans Books on Tape, 2000.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Ishiguro, Kazuo, and John Rafter Lee. When We Were Orphans Library edition, Books on Tape, 2000.

Note! Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of August 2021.

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