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When We Were Orphans

(2000)
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Awards
2000 Booker Prize (shortlist)
2000 Whitbread Prize for Best Novel (nominee)

In 1930s England, Christopher Banks has become one of the country's most celebrated detectives. His cases are the talk of London society. Yet one mystery has always haunted him, the mysterious disappearance of his parents in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy.


Genre: Literary Fiction

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