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"The English Patient" author and Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje's most powerful novel is about war, about love, about family ties, about identity, about unknown enemies, and about the exploration of the dusty past. Tao Lixia, a popular writer and translator of "Flying to the West", has lovingly translated it

Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro knows the book so well that he can recite it by heart! Winner of the Booker Prize 50th Anniversary Grand Prize "Golden Booker Prize" and a rare "poetry and novel all-rounder" in the world of literature, Ondaatje! Ondaatje's another classic masterpiece after "The English Patient"! If there's anyone else you're worried about, reading "Wartime Lights" may help you feel better. Ondaatje's imagination borders on the surreal! --Nobel Prize-winning writer Kazuo Ishiguro. Obama recommends books! Excellent translation! Bonus: "The Prism of Memory" written by Professor Wu Gang of Shanghai International Studies University and exquisite illustrations! "Life is 'schwer' (distress)." 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...

That seemingly short journey alone turned out to be so long that it changed my entire life. Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro's beloved writer Michael Ondaatje! Winner of the 50th Anniversary Booker Prize, the Golden Booker Prize, and a rare "versatile poet and novelist" in the world of literature, Ondaatje Ondaatje's first moving novel since "The English Patient" is based on his extraordinary life experience when he was 11 years old! A charming novel about growth, memory and love, the author's true feelings and beautiful poetry are revealed in the plainness. It is a healing work for Ondaatje's recollection of his boyhood. As we travel alone for the first time, we are looking for the unformed parts of ourselves. Ondaatje's imagination borders on the surreal! --Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro. An 11-year-old boy embarks on a 21-day sea journey alone for the first time. He will witness growth, friendship and transformation. "The three-week sea voyage, in my first memory, was uneventful. Only now, many years later, when my children encourage me to tell the story of this journey, has it turned into an adventure. Through their eyes, it has even become something extraordinary in life. A coming-of-age ceremony."