Warlight

Warlight

by Michael Ondaatje
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 07/06/2018

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**


An elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient


It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz. 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 all who seem determined to protect Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel journeys through recollection, reality and imagination to uncover all he didn’t know or understand in that time, to piece together a story that feels something like the truth.


**‘A novel of shadowy brilliance’**The Times


‘Fiction as rich, as beautiful, as melancholy as life itself, written in the visionary language of memory’ Observer


‘Ondaatje brilliantly threads the mysteries and disguises and tangled loyalties and personal yearnings of the secret world... I haven’t read a better novel this year’ Telegraph

ISBN:
9781473555099
9781473555099
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
07-06-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House
Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is the author of several novels, as well as a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry.

Among his many Canadian and international recognitions, his novel The English Patient won the Man Booker Prize, and was adapted into a multi-award winning Oscar movie; and Anil’s Ghost won the Giller Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Prix Médicis.

Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.

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