{"product_id":"warlight-by-michael-ondaatje-9781784708344","title":"Warlight","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA mesmerising new novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe English Patient\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets, and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe English Patient\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz. Fourteen-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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A novel of shadowy brilliance' - The Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Fiction as rich, as beautiful, as melancholy as life itself, written in the visionary language of memory' - Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'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\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46505640689900,"sku":"9781784708344","price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11698273482823.jpg?v=1748677302","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/warlight-by-michael-ondaatje-9781784708344","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}