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From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination. Born in early-twentieth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, more than twenty years later, he... read more

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It was the Summer of 1923, the summer I came down from Cambridge, when despite my aunt's wishes that I return to Shropshire, I decided my future lay in the capital and took up a small flat at Number 14b Bedford Gardens in Kensington.

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  1. Kazuo Ishiguro (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Country: UK
Publication Date: 2000
ISBN: 0-571-20562-3
Page Count: 368

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