Scar Tissue
Summary
At the heart of SCAR TISSUE is a son's account of his mother's voyage into a world of neurological disease, losing her memory and then her very identity, only to gain - at the very end - a strange serenity. Obsessed with his mother's transformation, the son sets out on his own quest for self-discovery.No recent British novel has traversed the worlds of reason and emotion, the human presence and its annihilation, so effectively and directlyPat Kane, New StatesmanBoth moving and intellectually challenging... a novel of rare resonanceDavid ROBSON, Sunday TelegraphIgnatieff's novel impresses in its wisdom as much as in its restraint... this is a rich novel written by a magnanimous writer with an' exquisite talent for naturalismMichael Wright, The Times. Booker listed
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