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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.

Author/Creator:

Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Warlight [by Ondaatje, M.]

Subjects:

Brothers and sisters — Fiction

Abandoned children — Fiction

Family secrets — Fiction

World War, 1939-1945 — Fiction

London (England) — Fiction

World War (1939-1945)

1939-1945

Family secrets

Brothers and sisters

Abandoned children

England — London

Genres:

Historical fiction

War fiction

Novels

Fiction

Physical Description:

289 pages ; 21 cm

Call Numbers:

PR9199.3.O5 W37 2018

ISBNs:

0525562966 (paperback)
9780525562962 (paperback)
9781784708344 (paperback)
1784708348 (paperback)

OCLC Numbers:

1047797406