WARLIGHT: Michael Ondaatje

WARLIGHT

by Michael Ondaatje

The first half of this book is a dreamlike romp through shadowy post-war London. We follow Nathaniel, as he recalls a time in his childhood when his parents disappeared, leaving him and his sister in the care of a charismatic but highly dubious cast of shady family friends. However, it’s the book’s haunting second act (which in my mind secures Ondaatje as the frontrunner for this year’s Booker Prize) that will linger with you long after you finish reading. In it an older and less naïve Nathaniel digs into his mother’s past, uncovering family and war secrets which shed a devastating new light on the events of his childhood.

- Reviewed by Kat

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