The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West by Ian Buruma

The Missionary and the Libertine: Love and War in East and West

Ian Buruma

352 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction essays informative reflective medium-paced
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From Naipaul’s India to the last days of Hong Kong, and from the ghosts of Pearl Harbor to Benazir Bhutto, Buruma delivers an engaging and incisive look at the ways East and West understand–and misunderstand–each other. At home in both worlds, Bur...

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