"Swift, compelling, moving, irresistible."
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The Baltimore Sun "Goes much further than even
The Remains of the Day in its examination of the roles we've had handed to us... His fullest achievement yet."
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The New York Times Book Review
"You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction."
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Sunday Times (London)
"Poignant...
When We Were Orphans may well be Ishiguro's most capacious book so far."
–Pico Iyer,
The New York Review of Books "[A]n imaginative work of surpassing intelligence and taste."
–Joyce Carol Oates,
Times Literary Supplement "With his characteristic finesse, Mr. Ishiguro infuses what seems like a classic adventure story with an ineffable tinge of strangeness."
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The Wall Street Journal