A mesmerising new novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The English Patient.
Michael Ondaatje is the author of several novels, as well as a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. Among his many Canadian and international recognitions, his novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize, and was adapted into a multi-award winning Oscar movie; and Anil's Ghost won the Giller Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Prix Medicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.
Our book of the year – and maybe of Ondaatje's career.
*Daily Telegraph **Books of the Year***
Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight is a rare and beautiful thing – a
deeply retrospective novel about war secrets that feels neither
overstated nor overly ethereal. In sumptuous prose, Ondaatje limns
the psyche of a man still trying to make sense of his complicated
relationships and the mysteries surrounding his absent parents. One
of the most absorbing books I’ve read all year.
*Times Literary Supplement **Books of the Year 2018***
Warlight sucked me in deeper than any novel I can remember… fiction
as rich, as beautiful, as melancholy as life itself.
*Observer*
From the very first sentence you’re desperate to find out what
happens next… All is slowly, tantalisingly revealed, in flashbacks,
fragments, digressions and stories within stories, narrated in
majestic Ondaatjean style.
*New Statesman*
In Warlight we have a writer who knows exactly what he’s doing –
and has constructed something of real emotional and psychological
heft, delicate melancholy and yet, frequently, page-turning
plottiness. I haven’t read a better novel this year.
*Daily Telegraph*
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