Warlight, Michael Ondaatje
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Warlight, Michael Ondaatje
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Index
no index present
Literary Form
novels
Main title
Warlight
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
1013764518
Responsibility statement
Michael Ondaatje
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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Subject
- Thrillers (Fiction.)
- Fictional Work
- Novels
- Bildungsromans
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1936-1952 (George VI) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Historical fiction
- London (England)
- Abandoned children -- Fiction
- Great Britain + George VI, 1936-1952 -- History
- Siblings -- Fiction
- Frères et sœurs -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Secret service
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 + Secret service -- England -- Fiction
- Spy fiction
- London (England) -- Fiction
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 + Service secret -- Angleterre -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Enfants abandonnés -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- General
- Great Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952 -- Fiction
- Romans
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Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre7
- Subject23
- Thrillers (Fiction.)
- Fictional Work
- Novels
- Bildungsromans
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1936-1952 (George VI) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Historical fiction
- London (England)
- Abandoned children -- Fiction
- Great Britain + George VI, 1936-1952 -- History
- Siblings -- Fiction
- Frères et sœurs -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Secret service
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 + Secret service -- England -- Fiction
- Spy fiction
- London (England) -- Fiction
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 + Service secret -- Angleterre -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Enfants abandonnés -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- General
- Great Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952 -- Fiction
- Romans
- Content1
- Author1
- Mapped to1