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Knopf
May 2018
On Sale: May 8, 2018
Featuring: Rachel; Nathaniel
204 pages
ISBN: 0525521194
EAN: 9780525521198
Kindle: B0755ZDRBH
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Historical | Coming of Age
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.
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