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In-person Arts & Culture

Book Clubs of EPL: Warlight

Thursday, April 17, 2025
7:00pm to 8:00pm

Edmonton Public Library (Abbotsfield - Penny McKee)

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Organized by: Edmonton Public Library

April
17

Love reading? Love to talk about books you've read? Come join us for lively discussions on all types of fiction and non-fiction. We'll feature different titles and authors each month. Come and share your impressions, thoughts and interpretations of a book we have all read.

Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje (Historical Fiction, 289 pages)

In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends- men and women with a shared history, all of whom seem determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all he didn't know or understand in that time, and it is this journey - through reality, recollection, and imagination - that is told in this magnificent novel.

Edmonton Public Library (Abbotsfield - Penny McKee)

3210 118 Avenue
Edmonton, AB, T5W 4W1