- Alzheimer's disease, Bereavement, Death, Family
Shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize.
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Grave, spare, earnest and contemplative.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Michael Ignatieff
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 199
- Publisher
- Insel, Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- Swedish, English, German, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780143013341
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