NATIONAL Be'sT '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 of our time.
Text in English
Taal / Language : English
Paperback / softback
288 pagina's
Januari 2019
149 gram
175 x 106 x 20 mm
Knopf
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