Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first UK paperback edition, later printing of When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro. First Paperback Edition stated, 2001 Faber and Faber. 17th printing with partial number line.
The exterior of this paperback edition is in Very Good condition, with clean, illustrated covers with no creases, heavy foxing on page blocks, mild surface wear, strong title on a tilted spine, a tight binding with two spine cracks, rubbed spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the half-title page. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The inside covers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The maze of human memory–the ways in which we accommodate and alter it, deceive and deliver ourselves with it–is territory that Kazuo Ishiguro has made his own. In his previous novels, he has explored this inner world and its manifestations in the lives of his characters with rare inventiveness and subtlety, shrewd humor and insight. In When We Were Orphans, his first novel in five years, he returns to this terrain in a brilliantly realized story that illuminates the power of one’s past to determine the present.
