When we were orphans

From the Japanese-born Malcolm Bradbury Literary Seminar graduate, Booker Prize winner for The Remains of the Day, comes an exquisite novel that paradoxically combines the traditions of the "black detective" of the 1930s and the "cultural prose" of the late 20th - early 21st centuries. The famous intellectual detective Christopher Banks has dreamed of solving the mystery of his parents' disappearance since childhood - and he finally gets the chance to do so, setting off on a very turbulent time along the London - Shanghai route. However, Christopher's investigation and his exotic journey gradually turn into a journey from the Present to the Past, from the world of illusions to the world of cruel reality...