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From the Booker prize winning, best-selling writer of Remains of your Day comes this spectacular work of soaring imagination. Created in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at age nine following the individual disappearances of his parents. Today, significantly more than two decades later, he's a famous figure in London society; the expertise that's earned him recognition has done little to illuminate the conditions of his parents' alleged kidnappings. Banks moves to the seething, labyrinthine town of his memory hoping of resolving the puzzle of his own, unpleasant past, simply to discover that war is ravaging Shanghai beyond recognition-and that his own memories are showing as hard to trust whilst the individuals around him.Masterful, suspenseful and psychologically intense, Whenever We Were Orphans provides a deep meditation on the changing quality of memory, and the chance of avenging one’s past.