Beschreibung
**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**<BR><BR>An elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient<BR><BR> 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.<BR><BR> 'A novel of shadowy brilliance' The Times<BR><BR> 'Fiction as rich, as beautiful, as melancholy as life itself, written in the visionary language of memory' Observer<BR><BR> '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
Angaben vom Händler.