“Read Ishiguro for the first time and was fascinated by the writer's command over the narrative and the plot.Set in Shanghai of early part of the 20th century,it continues to the end of the Sino Japanese war.The sinister manipulations of the opium trading British companies who wanted to subjugate an entire nation by making them addicts,their complicity with the Chinese war lords and caught in between all of this, the saga of Christopher Banks and his parents makes for compulsive reading.The...”

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