DESCRIPTION : \’Our book of the year and maybe of Ondaatje\’s career\’ Daily Telegraph Books of the Year**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**** FINALIST FOR THE 2018 LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE** An elegiac, dreamlike novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English PatientThe past never remains in the pastLondon, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their parents who leave the country on business, and are left in the dubious care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. Nathaniel is introduced to The Moths band of criminal misfits and is caught up in a series of teenage misadventures, from smuggling greyhounds for illegal dog racing to lovers trysts in abandoned buildings at night. But is this eccentric crew really what and who they claim to be? And most importantly, what happened to Nathaniels mother? Was her purported reason for leaving true? What secrets did she hide in her past? Years later Nathaniel, now an adult, begins to slowly piece together using the files of intelligence agencies and through reality, recollection and imagination the startling truths of puzzles formed decades earlier. ——-A novel of shadowy brilliance The TimesFiction as rich, as beautiful, as melancholy as life itself, written in the visionary language of memory Observer Ondaatje brilliantly threads the mysteries and disguises and tangled loyalties and personal yearnings of the secret world…and has constructed something of real emotional and psychological heft, delicate melancholy and yet, frequently, page-turning plottiness. I havent read a better novel this year. Telegraph PRODUCT DETAILS : ISBN : 9781784708351 BY (AUTHOR) Ondaatje, Michael PUBLISHER : Vintage Publishing PUBLICATION DATE : April 02, 2019 COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United Kingdom IMPRINT : Vintage LANGUAGE : English AGE : General PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback DIMENSION : 178 mm x 110 mm WEIGHT : 163 g PRODUCT CATEGORY : Fiction & Related items