When We Were Orphans
- List Price: $25.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 09/01/2000
It is a straightforward story, but in its remarkable telling, Kazuo Ishiguro once again displays the full breadth of his gifts. Christopher's voice -- as it comes to us through the pages of his personal journal, begun as he is embarking on his career -- is precise, in control, observant, and detached. Within the layers of this narrative we slowly see revealed what Christopher can't, or won't, see: that his memory, despite what he wants to believe, is not faultless, and not uneffected by the tragedies of his childhood; that his powers of perception, the heralded clarity of his vision, is more blinding than revealing; that reality is sometimes unreal, and order sometimes arbitrary; and that the most simple desires -- a child's for his parents, a man's for understanding -- may give rise to the most complicated truths.
Brilliantly crafted and deeplymoving, subtly evocative of time and place, When We Were Orphans is a narrative feat of both complex logic and soaring imagination.
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