Warlight

Ondaatje, Michael 1943- (author.).

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.

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ISBN: 9780525521198
ISBN: 0525521194
ISBN: 9781524711399
ISBN: 152471139X
ISBN: 9780525521204
Physical Description: print
289 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018
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Subject:

Brothers and sisters Fiction
London (England) Fiction
Abandoned children Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 Secret service England Fiction
Great Britain History George VI, 1936-1952 Fiction
FICTION / Literary
FICTION / War & Military
FICTION / Coming of Age
Brothers and sisters Fiction
War fiction
World War, 1939-1945 Fiction
Abandoned children Fiction
London (England) Fiction
Abandoned children
Brothers and sisters
England London

Genre:

Spy fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction.)
Fiction.

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