If there is someone else who makes you worried, reading "Wartime Lights" may help you feel relieved! Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro knows the book so well that he can recite it by heart! Ong Datje, winner of the Booker Prize's 50th Anniversary Grand Prize and the Golden Booker Prize, has another classic masterpiece after "The English Patient"!
In 1945, 14-year-old Nathaniel's parents passed away, leaving him and his sister in the care of two possible criminals.
The person nicknamed "Moth" is elusive all day long, and the identity of "Bartman" does not seem to be simple. They also bring with them a group of strangers, each of whom seems to have a secret and seems to have some kind of relationship with the boy's mother.
More than ten years later, 31-year-old Nathaniel is still brooding over his mother's sudden abandonment. He is determined to dig out the incomprehensible past and try to piece together the complete story of that year...