01753cam a2200277 i 4500 346061513 TxAuBib 20180510120000.0 180308s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780525521198 $26.95 0525521194 $26.95 TxAuBib rda Ondaatje, Michael. Warlight / Michael Ondaatje. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. 289 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself – at once both shadowed and luminous – Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. 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 with a shared history, all of whom seem determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all he didn’t know or understand in that time, and it is this journey – through reality, recollection, and imagination – that is told in this magnificent novel. 20180510. Brothers and Sisters Fiction. Abandoned children Fiction. London (England) Fiction.