When We Were Orphans

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 336, [4]. Brown backstrip titled in gilt over mustard-coloured boards; fore-edge untrimmed.

Signed by the Author to title page.

His fifth novel. Shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize, as well as the Whitbread Prize. Mystery novel that moves between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years. Thematic threads and parallels between it and James Ivory's 2005 film, The White Countess, to which Ishiguro supplied the screenplay, and features a disparate group of displaced persons attempting to survive in 1930s Shanghai, are well to the fore. The drama starred Ralph Fiennes and Natasha Richardson.

Named by Granta magazine as one of the 20 Best Young British Novelists in both 1983 and 1993. Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. "You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction." –Sunday Times