When we where orphans

WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS
ISHIGURO,Kazuo

Edición: 2000
Formato: PAPERBACK
Páginas: 368
ISBN: 0571205623
Editorial: FABER & FABER

El cuarto libro de Ishiguro que leo y uno de los mejorcitos, yo diria el 3ero despues de "The remains of the day" y "A pale view of hills". Se trata de un detective, que ya consagrado, trata de descifrar el ultimo misterio, la desaparicion de sus padres. El personaje principal, Christopher, rememora algunos acontecimientos de su vida mientras resuelve sus casos. Al transcurrir el tiempo, todas esas imagenes, esos recuerdos, lo llevan a buscar una respuesta, que, como buen detective, bien pudo inferir aunque la verdad resulta, al final, muy distinta a lo que se imaginaba.
Es una historia bastante triste y muy bien narrada aunque se vuelve un poco increible en su parte final. De todas formas el libro es excelente y como siempre el "british english" de Ishiguro es impecable. Le doy 3 estrellitas de 5 (***)

Sinopsis: "England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the county´s most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him; the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realises the time has come for him to return to the city of his childhood and at last solve the mystery -that only by his doing so will civilisation be saved from the approaching catastrophe.
Moving between London and Shanghai in the inter-war years, When we were orphans is a story of memory, intrigue and the need to return; of a childhood vision of the world surviving deep into adulthood, indelibly shping and distorting a person´s life.