Synopsis
As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and profound exploration of how writers, composers and artists have searched for solace while facing loss, tragedy and crisis, from the historian and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michael Ignatieff.
'This erudite and heartfelt survey reminds us that the need for consolation is timeless, as are the inspiring words and...
Details
20 October 2022304 pages
9781529053791Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Illuminating and moving, these wide-ranging portraits of men and women seeking answers in dark times . . . appeal to us all, as a universal quest and an intimate personal testament.Jenny Uglow, author of Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense
An extraordinary meditation on loss and mortality - drawing on all of Michael Ignatieff’s powers as a philosopher, a historian, a politician and a man.Rory Stewart, author of The Places in Between
Reading this book is like taking a walk along a winding path with a dear friend and sharing life’s travails . . . At the end, you feel enlivened, fortified, and somehow just a little wiser. This is a bold, brilliant, and yes, moving book.Lisa Appignanesi, author of Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love
In an age when we are so much in need of solace, Michael Ignatieff went looking for it in texts
Kwame Anthony Appiah, author of The Lies that Bind: Rethinking Identity
and times whose assumptions are profoundly different from our own . . . elegant, humane and intensely rewarding.
