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8 Μαΐ 2018 · Michael Ondaatje. 3.60. 45,472 ratings5,527 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction (2018) In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire.
I enjoyed parts of Warlight, but as with Ondaatje novels, he has an imagist's way of telling the story: he'll give you an image, and you commit it to memory. Plot is more fluid and elusive, and that requires more work on the part of the reader. I'm not sure I was in the right mood for it.
9 Μαΐ 2018 · The title of Booker-prize winning author Michael Ondaatje’s latest work, Warlight, aptly sets the atmosphere: the darkness of war casts an emotional and physical pall over this captivating novel. Warlight was the foggy, shimmering illumination that shrouded London during the Blitz.
9 Μαΐ 2018 · In Michael Ondaatje’s new book, warlight is the word for the twilight that shrouded London during the bombings of World War II, when lights were dimmed to avoid lighting the way for German bombs...
10 Οκτ 2021 · Warlight by Michael Ondaatje is one of those novels that is almost impossible to review because trying to describe what it is about is as difficult as catching cumulous clouds in a butterfly net. Boiled down to its most basic premise, it's a story about a…
2 Απρ 2019 · A Washington Post Notable Book. An NPR Best Book of the Year. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel, seemingly abandoned by their parents, have been left in the care of an enigmatic figure they call The Moth.
8 Μαΐ 2018 · BOOK REVIEW. by. Acclaimed novelist Ondaatje (The Cat’s Table, 2011, etc.) returns to familiar ground: a lyrical mystery that plays out in the shadow of World War II.
