From A to X: Some Letters Recuperated by John Berger - Couverture rigide

Berger, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1844672883 ISBN 13 : 9781844672882

Editeur : Verso Books, 2008

Synopsis

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. In a dusty, ramshackle town lives A ida. Her insurgent lover Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A ida s letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But the area is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroaches from outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity an intimate dance, a shared meal assume for A ida a life-affirming significance, acts of resistance against the forces that might otherwise extinguish them. From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.

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À propos de l?auteur

Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours and, most recently, Here Is Where We Meet.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844672883
• ISBN 13: 9781844672882
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 199
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible