Elementary
6/10
Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans revisits the classically English detective novel, mimicking and deliberately undermining the style of authors like Agatha Christie. It uses this simple subtext to show how the global catastrophe of the second world war finally destroyed the quaint notion that evil and criminality could be overcome by logic and reason. Whereas [...]
Kazuo Ishiguro - When We Were Orphans
June 4th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Fiction
Tags:Agatha Christie·detective·Kazuo Ishiguro·Shanghai·World War II