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A novel that tells a story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement. 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.
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Blindganger, Philip Michael Ondaatje, Lucie van Rooijen, Inger Limburg
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2018
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- Titolo
- Blindganger
- Lingua
- Olandese
- Editore
- Nieuw Amsterdam
- Pubblicato
- 2018
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 288
- ISBN10
- 904682392X
- ISBN13
- 9789046823927
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Tema stórico, Prosa storica, Famiglia, Prosa di guerra, Guerre, Seconda guerra mondiale, Relazioni, Inghilterra, Vita, Segreti, Crescita, Gran Bretagna, Memorie, Spionaggio, Londra, Gioventù, Paura, Vendetta, Relazioni Familiari, Genealogia, albero genealogico, Indagine, Periodo post-bellico, Servizi segreti, Letteratura canadese, Servitori, Maggiordomi
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2018
- Titolo originale
- Warlight
- Valutazione
- 3,55 su 5
- Descrizione
- A novel that tells a story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement. 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.