Warlight

Resource Information

The work Warlight represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Ipswich Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Warlight

Statement of responsibility

Michael Ondaatje

Creator

• Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-

Author

• Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-

Subject

• Bildungsromans
• Brothers and sisters
• England -- London
• FICTION / Coming of Age
• FICTION / Literary
• FICTION / War & Military
• Fiction
• Great Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952 -- Fiction
• Abandoned children
• London (England) -- Fiction
• Siblings -- Fiction
• Spy fiction
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Secret service -- England -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Abandoned children -- Fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Spy fiction
• Fiction
• Bildungsromans

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

NHP

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR9199.3.O5

LC item number

W37 2018

Literary form

fiction