Warlight
Vintage Publishing
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 PatientIt 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 Tanıtım Bülteninden
