When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro - Paperback

Forse il più sentito e difficile libro di Ishiguro. Va letto lentamente, assaporando ogni frase. Sembra quasi un thriller ma in realtà è una storia di rivisitazione dell'infanzia e uno spaccato di vita nella Cina pre maoista. Bellissimo!

Chegou em depressa e tudo em ordem, bem embalado

I actually brought and read this book for a course I take and Uni, not as a pleasure read. That said, I really enjoyed reading it in preparation for my class, I found the novel engaging, interesting, and different in a very quirky way. However, it was only after going through the book in class that I really understood and appreciated just how intricate the novel really is. I found it a very good read, but getting the best out of it required some effort. There's a lot of very brilliant aspects to the book I only noticed or digested after it had been pointed out me, had I not had a class on it, they might very well have eluded me.

Since the spring of this year, I’ve read through four fictions written by Kazuo Ishiguro. Some of them were boring. one was crazy. But “When We Were Orphans” was a really good novel. Ishiguro’s writing style seems to me tedious sometimes because of lengthy description of the background of the hero and situations which seems to be irrelevant to the main plot. But “When We Were Orphans” is the meticulously constructed, skillfully written novel that comes with thrill and excitement. It is also a great reading, especially for readers who have ever lived in Shanghai sometime in the past, or know the old time Shanghai.

Buenísimo, buenísimo genial atrevido lleno de imágenes de vida de nobleza. Agreda le lectura y misterioy ya no se qué más poner