When we were orphans

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Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-
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Christopher Banks, an English boy who was orphaned after his parents disappeared in Shanghai under suspicious circumstances, returns to Shanghai twenty years later in the hopes of learning what really happened to his parents.

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British
British -- China -- Fiction
Death
Detective and mystery fiction
Detective and mystery stories
Detective and mystery stories -- Great Britain
Fiction
Historical fiction
History
History -- Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
Missing persons
Missing persons -- Fiction
Orphans
Orphans -- Psychology -- Fiction
Parents
Parents -- Death -- Fiction
Private investigators
Private investigators -- China -- Shanghai -- Fiction
Psychology
Shanghai (China) -- Fiction
Shanghai (China) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Social life and customs
Suspense fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)

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