Warlight : a novel / Michael Ondaatje.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- author.

Contributor:

West, Steve (Actor), narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945.

Family secrets--Fiction.

Family secrets.

Siblings--Fiction.

Siblings.

Abandoned children--Fiction.

Abandoned children.

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

Genre:

Audiobooks

War fiction.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

7 audio discs (8 hr., 37 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Edition:

Unabridged.

Place of Publication:

[Westminster, Maryland] : Books on Tape, [2018]

System Details:

digital

audio file CD audio

Summary:

In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we follow the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they 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 in this masterwork from one of the great writers of our time.

Participant:

Read by Steve West.

Notes:

Title from web page.

Compact discs.

ISBN:

9780525627531

0525627537

OCLC:

1002830927

Publisher Number:

PRHA 7617 Penguin Random House Audio