When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro, 2000
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🔽 Intro and review summary 🔽
✔ China, Japan and the war
✔ Nostalgia and unreliable memories from childhood
✔ Friendship between British and Japanese in China
★★★★☆ Nostalgia, it is the big theme in this book. Christopher and Akira playing innocently in their childhood in Shanghai. Full of fun and tender memories. But are they?
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
It's a book from Ishiguro, so the writing is beautiful, that's given.
Nostalgia, it is the big theme in this book, full of fun and tender memories.
Christopher and Akira playing innocently during their childhood in Shanghai. After growing up to become a detective in England, though through some slow confusions, Christopher finally decides to take on a mission, the reality, of the disappearance of his parents.
Ishiguro doesn't explain things in a chronological order.
How much is real, how much is carefully made up?
He goes wondering around the city of Shanghai blindly without a solid clue or valid understanding, as he is wondering around in his memories.
Beautifully written.
🔽 Where to buy / Summary and more info 🔽
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When We Were Orphans: A Novel
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