Warlight - Nominiert: Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 2018. Nominiert: Walter Scott Prize, 2019
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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2019 |
| Seiten | 304 |
| Format | 11,0 x 17,8 x 1,9 cm |
| A-format paperback | |
| Gewicht | 168 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 1784708356 |
| EAN | 9781784708351 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78470835UA |
__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 Patient
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.
'A novel of shadowy brilliance' The Times
'Fiction as rich, as beautiful, as melancholy as life itself, w ritten 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
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Our book of the year - and maybe of Ondaatje's career. Daily Telegraph __Books of the Year__