Michael Ondaatje on "Warlight: A Novel" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair

Michael Ondaatje on "Warlight: A Novel" at the 2018 Miami Book Fair interviewed by Jeffrey Brown.
From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.
In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, and it is this journey--through facts, recollection, and imagination--that he narrates in this masterwork from one of the great writers of our time.
Fiction, brothers and sisters, abandoned children, World War, England, Secret Service, historical fiction, history, spy fiction, London

[@mikeu5380]

Hi from Japan. I love the epigraph in the beginning (attributed to Robert Bresson): "Most of the great battles are fought in the creases of topographical maps." Such an apt phrase for many of M.O.'s books.

[@Caperhere]

I’ve just discovered his work. Listened to Warlight twice this week, and now I’m going to read it. Such a pleasure to read his books.

[@michaelmoraga2926]

Diego Rivera murals influencing "In The Skin of the Lion"... truly inspired.

[@alobo2811]

i.love.him.and.his.curiosty.

[@kristine6996]

A Lobo, Me.Too. 😉

[@novotnyingersol9200]

Time for an overdue Nobel.

[@Robert-mh3ju]

can someone write me an essay bout this book

[@1949Matilda]

Was Agnes/Sophie's child actually Nathaniel's? This didn't seem clear to me. Was Agnes having am affair with The Darter on the side?

[@paxwallacejazz]

Hey look at all the comments. See how much the world reads today.

[@michaelmoraga2926]

Too busy reading to comment ; )

[@earlhofer842]

Sad, isnt' it?

[@kristine6996]

Earl Hofer, no it isn't 😁