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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Allan Corduner, best known for his extensive stage and screen credits including Homeland, Da Vinci's Demons and portraying Sir Arthur Sullivan to Jim Broadbent's Gilbert in Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy. This definitive recording...

England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai of the interwar years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

Former Broadway dancer and current agoraphobic Billy Shine has not set foot outside his apartment in almost a decade. He has glimpsed his neighbors--beautiful manicurist Rayleen, lonely old Ms. Hinman, bigoted and angry Mr. Lafferty, kind-hearted Felipe, and nine-year-old Grace and her former addict mother, Eileen. But most of them have never seen Billy. Not until Grace begins to sit outside on the building's front stoop for hours every day, inches from Billy's patio.

On being kicked by life harder than he could ever imagine, Sachin had three options. He could look life in the eye and fight back. He could succumb and do something that would haunt him forever. Or he could flee to a place where there were no traces of the blow he had received. So Goa it was. In search of solace, perhaps, by working in a small shack at an unknown beach. Dealing with the local police, resurrecting a dying shack, and managing rowdy parties, risking having his bones and jawline broken, does Sachin get what he was seeking?

Dalton, North Dakota. It’s September 1951: years since George and Margaret Blackledge lost their son James when he was thrown from a horse; months since his widow Lorna took off with their only grandson and married Donnie Weboy. Margaret is steadfast, resolved to find and retrieve her grandson Jimmy - the one person in this world keeping James’s memory alive - while George, a retired sheriff, is none too eager to stir up trouble. Unable to sway his wife from her mission, George takes to the road with Margaret by his side, traveling through the Dakota badlands to Gladstone, Montana.

Antonio es el nuevo profesor de lenguaje; Gabriel, su alumno arrogante y combativo; Dominga, la sicóloga que cree proteger a los niños de sus propios padres; Moisés, un director con el valor para denunciar cualquier tipo de abusos. Ellos son algunos de los personajes de esta novela, ganadora del Premio Pedro de Oña 2016, que narra la desconcertante primera experiencia de un joven profesor a cargo del octavo básico en un colegio de Santiago poniente.

Antonio es el nuevo profesor de lenguaje; Gabriel, su alumno arrogante y combativo; Dominga, la sicóloga que cree proteger a los niños de sus propios padres; Moisés, un director con el valor para denunciar cualquier tipo de abusos. Ellos son algunos de los personajes de esta novela, ganadora del Premio Pedro de Oña 2016, que narra la desconcertante primera experiencia de un joven profesor a cargo del octavo básico en un colegio de Santiago poniente.