Warlight: A Novel
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Narrated by Steve West
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From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.
In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself—shadowed and luminous at once—we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, and it is this journey—through facts, recollection, and imagination—that he narrates in this masterwork from one of the great writers of our time.
Editor's Note
Memorable page-turner…
The acclaimed author of “The English Patient” is back with a tale of rogues and misfits in London shortly after the end of WWII. Memorable characters and mysterious circumstances coalesce into a well-written page-turner.
Michael Ondaatje
MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of six previous novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize; Anil's Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Well that was mean, why advertise to us if you cannot send to us ! Canadian!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5If there was a deeper meaning hidden within this patchwork story it has eluded me. The writing is good but there was no cohesion, just a depressing, rambling recollection of a man who’s trying to make sense of his life. I wouldn’t recommend this book unless you’re looking for melancholy feelings.
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