The first half of this book was a real slog for a number of reasons that all kind of boiled down to – it’s yet another novel about a young white boy figuring out life in the shadow of World War II. At this point, I have lost count of the number of these I have read and they all blur together, and this one just also felt like not enough actually happened in it for it to stand out. The first half of the […]
‘Half the life of cities occurs at night,’ Olive Lawrence warned us. ‘There’s a more uncertain morality then’
Warlight – 3/5 Stars Warlight is the latest novel by Michael Ondaatje, most famous of course for The English Patient which won the Booker Price 25 years ago and recently won a kind of reissue Booker Prize and of course the film version of the movie won Best Picture at the Oscars and I really like the movie and plenty of people do not. So this book has also been nominated for the Longlist of the Booker Prize. Like a lot of late novels by […]