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intricacy’
New Statesman

Once in Europa
    In
Once in Europa
, part of the acclaimed
Into Their Labours
trilogy, John Berger paints a vivid portrait of two worlds – a small Alpine village bound to the earth and its age-old traditions, and the restless, ephemeral, future-driven culture that is invading it – at their moment of collision. The main instrument of entrapment and conflict, in these stories, is love. Lives are lost and hearts are broken, and yet, sometimes, love is a transcending form of grace.
    â€˜Berger’s prose homes in on an intense and grainy view of the details of local life, and somehow transposes them into the patterns of a wider world’
Financial Times
    â€˜Berger writes in an ethereal style, each sentence full of poetic prose’
Observer

Lilac and Flag
    As Dickens and Balzac did for their time, so John Berger does for ours, rendering the movement of a people and the passing of a way of life. In
Lilac and Flag
, the Alpine village of the two earlier volumes of the
Into Their Labours
trilogy has been forsaken for the mythic city of Troy. Here, amidst shanty-towns, factories, opulent hotels, fading heritages and steadfast dreams, the children and grandchildren of rural peasants pursue meagre livings as best they can. And two young lovers embark upon a passionate, desperate journey of love and survival and find transcending hope both for themselves and for us as their witnesses.
    â€˜Remarkable … Like all great novelists John Berger guides his characters and readers tenderly and with intimate humour’
Michael Ondaatje
    â€˜A magnificent trilogy … Moving in an almost unbearable way’
Anthony Burgess

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos
    This book – call it a book of love letter meditating on place, mortality, art, love and absence – is as breathtaking and spare as we have come to expect of John Berger. From his lyrical description of the works of Caravaggio, or the sight of a spray of lilac on a windowsill, to profound explorations of death and immigration, this is a beautiful and intimate response to our century.
    â€˜He handles thoughts the way an artist handles paint. His mind is spattered with colour … His writing has a physical reality’
The Times
    â€˜John Berger is genius invisible. His life’s work is synonymous with the creation of unforgettable living portraits’
Scotsman

Photocopies
    In his new book John Berger traces in words moments lived in Europe at the end of the millennium. These moments are not fiction. They happened. As he wrote them Berger sometimes imagined a frieze of ‘photocopies’ arranged side by side, giving future readers a panoramic view of what this moment in history was like when lived. Each ‘photocopy’ is about somebody for whom Berger felt a kind of love, but the book also becomes an unintentional portrait of the author as well.
    â€˜This beautiful book bring non-fiction writing close to drawing – the sort of drawing that both records and investigates … Berger makes you believe in goodness: not an impossible state out of our reach, but a capacity in all of us to do with honesty, not faking. This is a marvelous book’
New Statesman
    â€˜Awe-inspiring … All the writing has a still, insistent beauty … Berger sometimes manages a moment of absolute and truthful emotion, which can be extraordinary’
Observer

To the Wedding
    With an introduction by Nadeem Aslam
    â€˜No one knows more about the necessity of love than John Berger: what love makes us capable of, and incapable of. This is a book of the most precise humanity. No one who reads it will forget what it makes us understand: every action has its twin, conscionable or unconscionable; every truth, its shadow in the world; everything lost, alive in love’
Anne Michaels
    A mother and father, estranged for years, are travelling across Europe to their daughter’s wedding. Vibrant,