Michael Ignatieff’s powerful novel explores the bonds of memory, their configuration in identity, and their relationship to love, loyalty and death.
Michael Ignatieff is internationally renowned both as a commentator on moral, ethical and political issues and as a novelist.
His novel Scar Tissue was short listed for the Booker Prize in 1993, and his non-fiction works include a biography of Isaiah Berlin, and four books on ethnic war and intervention: Blood and Belonging, The Warrior’s Honour, Virtual War and Empire Lite: Nation Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan.