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Una obra cumbre sobre la guerra, la adolescencia y la memoria. La nueva novela de Michael Ondaatje, galardonado en 2018 con el Booker de Oro al mejor libro de la historia de este premio, es un relato hipn tico y profundo sobre los l gubres a os que siguieron al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
El relato que hace Nathaniel de su infancia y adolescencia tras la sospechosa partida de sus padres hacia Singapur est compuesto por los destellos, los restos y los recuerdos ensamblados de una poca en la que, junto a su hermana, entra en contacto con un peque o grupo de personajes de dudosa procedencia e intenciones poco claras. Quiz criminales, quiz agentes pol ticos, todos ellos conforman una incierta y problem tica red de relaciones. El peso grave de la guerra, la omnipresencia de las ausencias familiares y su influencia sobre estas vidas subterr neas cobran aqu un efecto casi m gico que hacen que en Luz de guerra tambi n la oscuridad brille. «Una nueva obra maestra de Michael Ondaatje. -Anna Mundow, The Washington Post
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION 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.