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    JOHN BERGER was born in London in 1926. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight, include the Booker Prize-winning novel
G
,
To the Wedding
and
King
. Amongst his outstanding studies of art and photography are
Another Way of Telling
,
The Success and Failure of Picasso
,
Titian: Nymph and Shepherd
(with Katya Berger) and the internationally acclaimed
Ways of Seeing
. He lives and works in a small village in the French Alps, the setting for his trilogy
Into Their Labours
(
Pig Earth
,
Once in Europa
and
Lilac and Flag
). His collection of essays
The Shape of a Pocket
was published in 2001. His latest novel,
From A to X
, was published in 2007.
    KATYA BERGER studied French and Russian literature at Geneva University, and is a translator, journalist and cinema critic.

Also by John Berger
    Fiction
The Foot of Clive
Corker’s Freedom
A Fortunate Man
Seventh Man
The Trilogy: Into Their Labours (Pig Earth, Once in Europa, Lilac and Flag)
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
Photocopies
To the Wedding
King
Here is Where We Meet
From A to X
    Poetry
Pages of the Wound
    Non-Fiction
A Painter of Our Time
Permanent Red
Art and Revolution
The Moment of Cubism and Other Essays
The Look of Things: Selected Essays and Articles
Ways of Seeing
Another Way of Telling
The Success and Failure of Picasso
About Looking
The Sense of Sight
Keeping a Rendezvous
The Shape of a Pocket
Selected Essays of John Berger
(ed. Geoff Dyer)
Bento’s Sketchbook

Also Available by John Berger
G
.
    Winner of the Booker Prize
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize
    In this luminous novel, John Berger relates the story of G., a modern Don Juan forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the last century as Europe teeters on the brink of war.
    With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what happens during sex, top reveal the conditions of the libertine’s success: his essential loneliness, the quiet cumlation in each of his sexual experiences of all of those that precede it, the tenderness that infuses even the briefest of his encounters, and the way women experience their own extraordinariness through the liaisons with him. Set against the turbulent backdrop of Garibaldi’s attempt to unite Italy, the failed revolution of Milanese workers in 1898, the Boer War and the dramatic first flight across the Alps,
G
. is a brilliant novel about the search for intimacy in the turmoil of history.
    â€˜The most interesting novel in English I have read for many years … It is one of the few serious attempts of our time to do for the novel what Brecht did for drama: to reshape it in the light of twentieth-century experience … A fine, humane and challenging book’
New Republic
    â€˜A rich and pleasurable reading experience’
Guardian
    â€˜To read
G
. is to find a writer one demands to know more about. Not to sit at the feet of his aphorisms or unravel the tangles of his allusions, but to explore more fully an intriguing and powerful mind and talent’
New York Times

Pig Earth
    With this haunting first volume of his
Into Their Labours
trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps,
Pig Earth
, relates the stories of sceptical, hard working men and fiercely independent women; of calves born and pigs slaughtered; of a message of forgiveness from a dead father to his prodigal son; and of the marvellous, indomitable Lucie Cabrol, exiled to a hut high in the mountains.
    â€˜Brilliant … These stories have a remarkable sense of celebration’
Sunday Telegraph
    â€˜
Pig Earth
is a relentlessly realist work … Doggedly scrupulous in its detail, its sheer unshowy knowledgeability … Berger is one of the few English writers who can interleave poems and political essays of equivalent