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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.

About the author

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.

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