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1) Warlight
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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...
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Warlight: A novel by Michael Ondaatje: Conversation Starters
When 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister are left by their parents in the care of a man who may be a criminal, his longing for his mother becomes more intense as he finds out she left her travel trunk in the basement. She may have gone missing but she may also be involved in activities like that of their mysterious guardian. Nathaniel grows up and attempts to piece together who his mother...
3) Voennyĭ svet
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Russian
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Just after World War II, 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel 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,...
5) Svitlo viyny
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Ukrainian
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1945 rik. London postupovo ohovtuyetʹsya vid zhakhitʹ viyny. Chotyrnadtsyatyrichnyy Natanielʹ ta yoho sestra Reychel vrazheni zvistkoyu pro vidyizd batʹkiv do Sinhapuru. Yikh zalyshayutʹ na pidozriloho cholovika na prizvysʹko Brazhnyk, u yakomu dity vhaduyutʹ zlochyntsya. Vykhovatelʹ nekhtuye svoimy obov'yazkamy. Teper domivku vidviduyutʹ zahadkovi osoby z temnym mynulym, ekstsentrychni choloviky y zhinky, yaki kozhen na sviy lad «vykhovuyutʹ»...
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