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Warlight : a novel / Michael Ondaatje.

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780525633006
  • ISBN: 0525633006
  • Physical Description: 351 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
  • Edition: First large print edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Random House Large Print, ©2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [347]-349).
Subject: Brothers and sisters > Fiction.
Abandoned children > Fiction.
London (England) > Fiction.
Genre: Large type books.
Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.

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24510. ‡aWarlight : ‡ba novel / ‡cMichael Ondaatje.
250 . ‡aFirst large print edition.
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300 . ‡a351 pages (large print) ; ‡c24 cm.
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338 . ‡avolume ‡bnc ‡2rdacarrier
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504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [347]-349).
520 . ‡aIn 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.
650 0. ‡aBrothers and sisters ‡vFiction.
650 0. ‡aAbandoned children ‡vFiction.
651 0. ‡aLondon (England) ‡vFiction.
655 0. ‡aLarge type books.
655 7. ‡aHistorical fiction. ‡2lcgft
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