Toen We Wezen Waren by Kazuo Ishiguro

A once-celebrated detective recalls his privileged childhood in Shanghai and the mysterious disappearance of his parents, a trauma that sends him on an obsessive investigation as an adult back to the city of his youth; the narrative blends a classic detective quest with a haunting meditation on memory, loss, identity, and the ways personal history can be distorted by time and longing.

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