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The function of memory is already a major component of the narrative in the opening pages of the book. His voice is studiedly anonymous, unfailingly formal and polite, even. When we were orphans 2000, an exercise in the crimefiction genre set against the backdrop of the sinojapanese war in the 1930s, traces a british mans search for his parents, who disappeared during his childhood. Plot and suspense are sacrificed to the psychology of the main character precisely as the psychology of the other, not unimportant characters is sacrificed. Kazuo ishiguro was born in nagasaki, japan, in 1954 and now lives in london, england. Christopher is writing in 1930 about something that. Kazuo ishiguros novel, when we were orphans, is sustained by the firm voice of christopher banks, its narrator.
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Each of his understated, finely wrought novels has been published to international acclaim. Kazuo ishiguro lives in london with his wife lorna and their 8yearold daughter naomi. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Kazuo ishiguro s enigmatic novel, when we were orphans, is as complex and baffling a work of fiction as i have ever encountered.
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