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Author:
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-, author.
Title:
Warlight / by Michael Ondaatje.
Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
289 pages ; 22 cm.
Subject:
Siblings--Fiction.
Abandoned children--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--England--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952--Fiction.
War fiction.
Historical fiction.
Notes:
"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
Summary:
Just after World War II, 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel 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.
ISBN:
0525521194
9780525521198
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1109843914
Locations:
KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

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