Warlight

Name: Warlight
Author: Michael Ondaatje
ISBN: 9781473555099

Michael Ondaatje

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Warlight

Michael Ondaatje

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#1043 of 8,085 books · #180 in Historical Fiction

Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2018) and the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction (2019). Also longlisted for 1 other award.

Warlight was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018. 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.

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