21 June 2018, The Tablet

Michael Ondaatje's Warlight is an erudite meditation on the damage we do when we make war


 

This first outing for seven years by Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje revisits the world of The English Patient. In Warlight, Nathaniel, or Stitch (“ours was a family with a habit for nicknames … a family of disguises”), is trying to make sense of his disordered family history.

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