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. -- Esi Edugyan * 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. --
Alex Preston * 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. -- Ian Sansom * 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. -- Sam Leith * Daily Telegraph *
The latest novel from the author of The English Patient is
just glorious... rendered with Dickensian verve.
My hot tip for the Booker Prize. -- Allison Pearson *
Harpers Bazaar *
Ondaatje's first novel in seven years mesmerizes from start to
finish. -- Hephzibah Anderson * Mail on Sunday *
I spend the months before the publication of a new Michael Ondaatje
novel trying to keep my expectations in check, telling myself it's
simply unfair to expect as much of any writer as I expect from
Ondaatje. Then he pulls off a Warlight, and I'm embarrassed
by my own lack of faith... [Warlight] is surprising,
delightful, heartbreaking and written as only Ondaatje could write
it. -- Kamila Shamsie * Observer *
Compulsively and grippingly readable. In fact I read it
first at a gallop, enthralled by the image of a city and a
world distorted and all but destroyed by war, and then again
slowly, determined to savour the details and extract as much
as I could from it. Much remained puzzling on this second reading,
but two things are clear: Michael Ondaatje is a marvellous
writer, and Warlight is a novel which will continue to play
in the reader's imagination. -- Allan Massie * Scotsman *
Ondaatje [is] such a thrilling writer... I loved
[Warlight]. -- Johanna Thomas-Corr * Evening Standard *
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