Kogda my byli sirotami - Isiguro Kadzuo

From the Japanese-born literary seminar graduate Malcolm Bradbury, winner of the Booker Prize for "The Remains of the Day" - an exquisite novel, which paradoxically combines the traditions of the "black detective" of the 1930s and the "cultural prose" of the late 20th - early 21st century. The famous detective, intellectual Christopher Banks from childhood wants to solve the mystery of the disappearance of his parents - and finally he has the opportunity to do so, in a very turbulent time going on the route London -Shanghai. However, the investigation of Christopher and his exotic journey gradually turn into a journey from the Present to the Past, from the world of illusions - to the world of cruel reality ...