Warlight

ISBN-13: 9781784708351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019

Michael Ondaatje

Opis

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.

Recenzje

Our book of the year - and maybe of Ondaatje's career. Daily Telegraph **Books of the Year**

O autorze

Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a non-fiction book about film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018; 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.