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Michael Ondaatje - Warlight, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Warlight

Av Michael Ondaatje

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Beskrivning
**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**An elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English PatientIt 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.‘A novel of shadowy brilliance’ The Times‘Fiction as rich, as beautiful, as melancholy as life itself, written in the visionary language of memory’ Observer‘Ondaatje brilliantly threads the mysteries and disguises and tangled loyalties and personal yearnings of the secret world... I haven’t read a better novel this year’ Telegraph
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-04-02
  • Mått: 110 x 178 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 169 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 304
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781784708351
  • Utmärkelser: Long-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2018 (UK)
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Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels; a memoir, Running in the Family; a non-fiction book on film, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film; and several books of poetry, including The Cinnamon Peeler and Handwriting. The English Patient received the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018, and was made into a film directed by Anthony Minghella. Anil’s Ghost was awarded the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.

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3 recensioner, genomsnitt 3.7/5

  1. 5/5 Anne-Marie S

    Mycket bra skildring av efterkrigstiden i London!
    När jag läste den kunde jag "se" hur det var i olika miljöer!

  2. 3/5 Synnöve

    Det vackra omslaget anger anslaget boken igenom. På ett vackert språk rör sig berättelsen framåt i åren utan av du som läsare förstår mer av vad som egentligen hände än de två barnen/ungdomarna som berörs.

  3. 3/5 Eva M

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