Warlight
By: Michael Ondaatje
Edition: First large print edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: [LARGE PRINT EDITION] /
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780525633006
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Large type books; Abandoned children; Brothers and sisters; Fiction
Other titles: War light
Description: In 1945, just after World War II, fourteen-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, and it is this journey--through facts, recollection, and imagination--that he narrates.