From the Booker Prizewinning bestselling author of Remains of the Day comesthis stunning work of soaring imagination.Born in earlytwentiethcentury Shanghai Bank... » 

From the Booker Prizewinning bestselling author of Remains of the Day comesthis stunning work of soaring imagination.Born in earlytwentiethcentury Shanghai Banks was orphaned at the age of nineafter the separate disappearances of his parents. Now more than twenty yearslater he is a celebrated figure in London society yet the investigativeexpertise that has garnered him fame has done little to illuminate thecircumstances of his parents alleged kidnappings. Banks travels to theseething labyrinthine city of his memory in hopes of solving the mystery ofhis own painful past only to find that war is ravaging Shanghai beyondrecognitionand that his own recollections are proving as difficult to trust asthe people around him.Masterful suspenseful and psychologically acute When We Were Orphans offersa profound meditation on the shifting quality of memory and the possibility ofavenging ones past. «