Warlight /
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
Warlight / - First edition. - 289 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
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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Random House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 SAN 201-3975
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Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Abandoned children--Fiction
World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--England--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952--Fiction.
Spy fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction.)
Fiction.
PR9199.3.O5 / W37 2018
813/.6
Warlight / - First edition. - 289 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
9780525521198 0525521194
Random House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 SAN 201-3975
2018934580
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Abandoned children--Fiction
World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--England--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.
Great Britain--History--George VI, 1936-1952--Fiction.
Spy fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction.)
Fiction.
PR9199.3.O5 / W37 2018
813/.6