Large Print Book

Warlight : a novel

ISBN: 0525633006
ISBN: 9780525633006
Physical Description: 351 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Edition: First large print edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Random House Large Print, [2018]
Copyright: &copy;2018

Ondaatje, Michael 1943- (author.).

Summary: In 1945, just after World War II, fourteen-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, and it is this journey--through facts, recollection, and imagination--that he narrates.