Warlight by Michael Ondaatje follows an Englishman named Nathaniel in his teenage years and adulthood. Nathaniel was a teenager in the 1940s and was informed that his mother had worked as a spy for the British government. Years after his mother was killed by foreign operatives, Nathaniel resolved to discover the exact nature of his mother’s espionage work. The novel explores themes of love, family, secrecy, coming of age, and espionage.
Once a highly regarded denizen of a burgeoning Canadian literary scene in the early 1970s, Michael Ondaatje (born 1943) has since gone on to achieve international renown for his poetry and fiction. Hi...
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Winner of two Governor General's awards for poetry, Michael Ondaatje is one of the most brilliant and acclaimed of that impressive group of Canadian poets who first published in the 1960s, a group tha...
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Michael Ondaatje
(Philip) Michael Ondaatje