Warlight
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-2019
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In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - 'Warlight' is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women with a shared history, all of whom seem determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all he didn't know or understand in that time, and it is this journey that is told in this magnificent novel.
Main title:
Warlight / Michael Ondaatje.
Author:
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-, author
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2019.
Collation:
289 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2018.
ISBN:
9781784708344 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.54FICTIONF
Language:
English
BRN:
2790368
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