When we were orphans

from the nee Japanese, graduate of the literary seminar Malcolm Bradbury, laureate of the Buker Prize for the “Remain of the day” - an exquisite novel, which paradoxically combines the traditions of the “Black Detective” of the 1930s and “cultural prose” of the late XX - early XXI centuries. From childhood, the most famous detective, intellectual Christopher Banks dreams of revealing the secret of the disappearance of his parents - and finally he seems to be the opportunity to do this, going along the London -Shanhei route in a very troubled time. 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 - into a world of cruel reality...