{"product_id":"when-we-were-orphans-9780375724404","title":"When We Were Orphans","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel \u003ci\u003eThe Remains of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery of his own, painful past, only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition-and that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust as the people around him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMasterful, suspenseful and psychologically acute, \u003ci\u003eWhen We Were Orphans \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory, and the possibility of avenging one's past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKazuo Ishiguro\u003c\/b\u003e is the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Both \u003ci\u003eThe Remains of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go \u003c\/i\u003ehave sold more than 1 million copies, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro's other work includes \u003ci\u003eThe Buried Giant, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNocturnes, A Pale View of the Hills, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAn Artist of the Floating World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50606099104018,"sku":"9780375724404","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_307d5a56-16c1-436a-abb5-ef64097b2eb8.jpg?v=1732288715","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/when-we-were-orphans-9780375724404","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}