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Our book of the year - and maybe of Ondaatje's career' Daily Telegraph Books of the Year**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**It 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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Ondaatje, ONDAATJE MICHAEL
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.04.2019
• EAN: 9781784708344
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-834-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, FICTION / Coming of Age, Historical romance, FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, Suffolk, Narrative theme: Coming of age, c 1940 to c 1949, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), C 1945 To C 1960