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Authors
Michael Ondaatje
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Pages
304
Dimensions
129 x 198 x 18mm
‘Our book of the year – and maybe of Ondaatje’s career’ Daily Telegraph Books of the Year**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**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 – through reality, recollection, and imagination – that is told in this magnificent novel.
