Book description
With The Warrior's Honor and Virtual War, Blood
& Belonging forms part of the acclaimed trilogy by Michael
Ignatieff on the face of modern conflict.
In 1993 Michael Ignatieff set out on a journey to the former
Yugoslavia, the Ukraine, Germany, Quebec, Kurdistan and Northern
Ireland in order to explore the many faces of modern nationalism at
its worst.
Modern nationalism is a language of blood: a call to arms that can
end in the horror of ethnic cleansing. But it is also a language of
belonging: a call to come home. In Blood & Belonging
Michael Ignatieff explores both sides of nationalism in a personal
odyssey that begins in the nightmare of the former Yugoslavia and ends
with his return to his adopted homeland, Great Britain's disunited kingdom.
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 the recent
Empire Lite: Nation Building in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan
.
