Title: A whodunnit with no who and no it
Review: After being dazzled by his previous works "Remains of the Day" and "A Pale View of Hills", I was left disappointed by Kazuo Ishiguro this time around.The book starts out great -- an historical whodunnit mystery about a boy whose parents are kidnapped in Shanghai in the early 1900's, who then returns years later to find them.But this book can't figure out what it wants to be... it's a mystery for awhile, then a romance, then a psychadelic journey into the mind of a sick man. In the end, it fails to satisfy the reader on any of those counts.Furthermore, Ishiguro does a poor job of bringing colonial Shanghai to life in the mind of the reader. That's a real shame, given that Shanghai during this period was one of the most exciting and stimulating cities in the world.Nevertheless I remain a devoted fan of Kazuo Ishiguro. Let's hope that he gets out of this slump and that his next book is as good as his earlier works.
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