02203cam a2200457 i 4500 371570059 TxAuBib 20190306120000.0 180213s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018934580 9780525521198 0525521194 9781524711399 152471139X 9781787330719 1787330710 9781787330726 1787330729 (OCoLC)1013764518 TxAuBib rda Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- Warlight / Michael Ondaatje. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. 289 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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. 20190306. Longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Brothers and sisters Fiction. Abandoned children Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Secret service England Fiction. London (England) Fiction. Great Britain History George VI, 1936-1952 Fiction. Spy fiction. Bildungsromans. Historical fiction. Fiction.