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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 04/04/2019
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ISBN: 9781784708344
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Length: 304 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
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Weight: 213g
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RRP: £8.99
'Our book of the year – and maybe of Ondaatje's career' Daily Telegraph Books of the Year
**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**
It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz. 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 all who seem determined to protect Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel journeys through recollection, reality and imagination to uncover all he didn’t know or understand in that time, to piece together a story that feels something like the truth.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 04/04/2019
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ISBN: 9781784708344
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Length: 304 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 129mm
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Weight: 213g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"<b>Our book of the year – and maybe of Ondaatje's career.</b>"
Daily Telegraph **Books of the Year**
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"<b>Michael Ondaatje’s <i>Warlight</i> is a rare and beautiful thing</b> – a deeply retrospective novel about war secrets that feels neither overstated nor overly ethereal. In<b> sumptuous prose</b>, Ondaatje limns the psyche of a man still trying to make sense of his complicated relationships and the mysteries surrounding his absent parents. <b>One of the most absorbing books I’ve read all year.</b>"
Times Literary Supplement **Books of the Year 2018**
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"<b><i>Warlight </i>sucked me in deeper than any novel I can remember</b>… fiction as rich, as beautiful, as melancholy as life itself."
Observer
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"<b>From the very first sentence you’re desperate to find out what happens next</b>… All is slowly, tantalisingly revealed, in flashbacks, fragments, digressions and stories within stories, <b>narrated in majestic Ondaatjean style</b>."
New Statesman
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"In <i>Warlight </i>we have <b>a writer who knows exactly what he’s doing </b>– and has constructed something of <b>real emotional and psychological heft</b>, delicate melancholy and yet, frequently, page-turning plottiness. <b>I haven’t read a better novel this year.</b>"
Daily Telegraph
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"The latest novel from the author of <i>The English Patient</i> is <b>just glorious</b>... <b>rendered with Dickensian verve.</b> <b>My hot tip for the Booker Prize.</b>"
Harpers Bazaar
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"Ondaatje’s first novel in seven years <b>mesmerizes from start to finish.</b>"
Mail on Sunday
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"I spend the months before the publication of a new Michael Ondaatje novel trying to keep my expectations in check, telling myself it's simply unfair to expect as much of any writer as I expect from Ondaatje. Then he pulls off a <i>Warlight</i>, and I'm embarrassed by my own lack of faith... [<i>Warlight</i>]<b> is surprising, delightful, heartbreaking and written as only Ondaatje could write it.</b>"
Observer
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"<b>Compulsively and grippingly readable</b>. In fact <b>I read it first at a gallop, enthralled</b> by the image of a city and a world distorted and all but destroyed by war, and then again slowly, <b>determined to savour the details</b> and extract as much as I could from it. Much remained puzzling on this second reading, but two things are clear: <b>Michael Ondaatje is a marvellous writer, and <i>Warlight</i> is a novel which will continue to play in the reader’s imagination</b>."
Scotsman
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"Ondaatje [is] such a <b>thrilling </b>writer…<b> I loved </b>[<i><b>Warlight</b></i>]."
Evening Standard
