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England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country'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. Moving between London and Shanghai of the interwar years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

Cartea urmăreşte destinul a trei orfani: Christopher Banks, Sarah Hemmings, de care acesta se îndrăgosteşte, şi Jennifer, fetiţa pe care o adoptă. Cele două figuri feminine au în spate o istorie banală, oricît de tragic ar fi faptul de a rămîne orfan. În schimb, în cazul lui Christopher Banks este vorba despre dispariţia misterioasă a părinţilor lui în Shanghai în anii Primului Război Mondial. Cei doi sînt presupuse victime ale traficanţilor de opiu.

In 1930s London, young and promising detective Banks returns to Shanghai in order to find his missing parents. The once-bustling Shanghai of his happy childhood has since transformed into an unrecognizable city rife with danger and mystery. What awaits him there is a dark secret, a cruel truth, and the revelation that his memories may not be as reliable as they seem.