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Warlight: A novel por Michael Ondaatje
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Warlight: A novel (edição 2018)

por Michael Ondaatje (Autor)

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From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.


In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself??shadowed and luminous at once??we read 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??that he narrates in this masterwork from one of the great writers
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Título:Warlight: A novel
Autores:Michael Ondaatje (Autor)
Informação:Vintage (2018), 305 pages
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I don't think I can rate this until I read it again; the closest I can come is to compare it to one of JMW Turner's depictions of something not clearly seen:
  lelandleslie | Feb 24, 2024 |
Michael Ondaatje writes beautifully. Characters with dimension, places I can see clearly through his prose. “Warlight” has all that. It also has a most intriguing first line, the mark of a great storyteller. Reeled me right in: “In 1945 our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.” It took me three weeks to read this book of 285 pages, though, because I could put it down. It took me quite a while to become invested in the story that was being told. I enjoyed it, but did not love it. ( )
  bschweiger | Feb 4, 2024 |
Growing up through the WWII blitz in England. It took me a bit of time to get into the story, and to get a sense of what was going on. I enjoyed Ondaatje's creative story telling and use of language. ( )
  jjbinkc | Aug 27, 2023 |
This beautifully written novel explores the impact of a British brother and sister abandoned by their parents during WW2. The mystery as to how and why makes this a compelling read. ( )
  GordonPrescottWiener | Aug 24, 2023 |
If you’re a fan of bildungsromans, then this book might be for you. As it turns out, that’s never been my cup of tea as a genre, despite some books using it more effectively than others. If you’re a fan of post-WWII fiction, then this book might also be for you; however, I would recommend that you check out Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabeth Bowen’s post-war fiction, Rose Macaulay, Barbara Pym, L.P. Hartley, et al., as their work is much more interesting, original, and less conventional than this novel.

Which leads me to the prose in Ondaatje’s Warlight: while there’s no doubt that he can write, and write very well, the prose here is very formulaic and suffers from relying too much on genre and caricature cliches—think a Dickensian novel done very quickly (à la Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, although that took her eleven years to write, so perhaps it’s a bad comparison here); think the punch-you-in-your-face allusions and repetitions in case you didn’t get them the first time around (e.g., Nathaniel and the echoes of Hoffmann’s “The Sand Man” or this novel’s The Moth Man and how many times the adjective “moth-like” is used to describe him).



While this is a compelling genre of two teenagers left alone just as peace hits post-Blitz London, and all of the attendant dangers and ominous moods that the city evokes during that time period (at which the novel excels quite well), the bifurcation of the narrative doesn’t mesh well with what seems to be Ondaatje’s point: namely, about memory and our (re)construction of our pasts, largely around chunks of absence. The first part of Warlight gets the story right, but the mood wrong; the second part gets the mood right—albeit with the stress falling in the wrong narrative place—but at the expense of what came before, if only to point to its seeming irrelevance.

With that said, this could very well be the book for you. Despite the bildungsroman red flag for this reader, I tackled it anyway, due to an immense interest in the time period and in the themes of memory and trauma. There’s too much plot here to prove the novel’s central point, though, and I might recommend this, as I said, for fans of Tartt, for fans of Dickens (but please go straight to the horse's mouth with him), or for those looking more for “popular” genre/historical fiction than those looking for literary fiction, as it so happened I was. ( )
  proustitute | Apr 2, 2023 |
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Ondaatje’s shrewd character study plays out in a smart, sophisticated drama, one worth the long wait for fans of wartime intrigue.
adicionada por Shortride | editarKirkus Reivews (Mar 1, 2018)
 
By now we know what we are going to get from an Ondaatje novel: A moody, murky, lightly pretentious and mostly nonlinear investigation of lives and stories that harbor tantalizing gaps.

There will be disquisitions on arcane topics including, frequently, mapmaking. Wartime and/or criminality will feature in the foreground or background. The nature of storytelling will be weighed and found fascinating. The spine of the plot, unlike the spine of a steamed fish, will be nearly impossible to remove whole.....Ondaatje’s new novel, “Warlight,” is his best since “The English Patient.” That sounds like a publicist’s dream quote, but perhaps it isn’t exactly. I was among that sodality of readers who didn’t cotton to “The English Patient,” finding it merely moody, murky and lightly pretentious, a tone poem in search of a whetstone....There’s an unpleasant sense that Ondaatje is regaling us rather than simply putting across a story. In his overweening interest in secrets and tall tales, in his relish for how stories are told, he’s taken the Salman Rushdie exit off the Paul Auster turnpike....Yet his burnished, lukewarm sentences don’t snap to life like the people he enjoys. Reading him on these scruffy men and women is like listening to someone try to play “Long Tall Sally” on solo cello. It’s not awful, but it’s weird.
 
We are in familiar Ondaatje territory here – sensuous prose, curious characters, missing threads, unstable footings. But which of these fragments has real significance? “Do we eventually become what we are originally meant to be?” ponders the narrator – and the reader – as each searches for meaning....This mesmerizing novel begins in 1945, when Nathaniel’s parents disappear, leaving Nathaniel, then 14, and his 16-year old sister in a grimy, postwar South London, “in the care of two men who may have been criminals.” Ostensibly, both parents are going to Singapore for a year, for their father’s new job. Meanwhile, the two men – Walter (tagged “the Moth” by the children for his “shy movements”) and “the Pimlico Darter” (an ex-welterweight boxer) – fill the house with bizarre visitors....Every sentence that Ondaatje writes defies gravity with its elegance, yet is weighty with significance. Water rushes out of taps “like time itself.” There are baffling loose ends and moments of tension. And yet, underneath the uncertainty there is a sturdy cohesion that makes this one of Ondaatje’s most successful and satisfying novels.
 
A boy alone in postwar London is drawn into shadowy worlds in this suspenseful yet frustrating story from the English Patient author....Michael Ondaatje likes writing about uncertainties, mysteries and doubts, not quite with the Keatsian ambition of resisting “any irritable reaching after fact and reason”, but because he relishes the idea of thoughts being fluid and characters essentially unknowable....scenes are habitually softened by half-lights, and all action and most reflection are slowed by rich (some would say overwritten) prose. Hence, too, the procedures of his other novels, in which similarly striking narrative potential is mostly kept in check, or actually stifled...In Ondaatje’s new novel, his eighth, his appetite for imprecision is stronger than ever..Rather than closing the book convinced that psychological insights have been generated by Jamesian withholdings, we might equally well feel that characters have been flattened by our simply not knowing enough about them, and that our interest in their doings is diminished by the same means.
 

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:NATIONAL BEST SELLER

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.


In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself??shadowed and luminous at once??we read 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??that he narrates in this masterwork from one of the great writers

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