Lilac and Flag: Book Three of the Into Their Labours Trilogy (Vintage International) - Softcover

Berger, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679737197 ISBN 13: 9780679737193

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992

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A magnificent trilogy. [Into Their Labours] is moving in an almost unbearable way."

-- Anthony Burgess

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 his masterwork, the Into Their Labours trilogy. With Lilac and Flag, the Alpine village of the two earlier volumes has been forsaken for the mythic city of Troy. Here, amidst the shantytowns, factories, and opulent hotels, fading heritages and steadfast dreams, the children and grandchildren of rural peasants pursue meager livings as best they can. And here, 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.

"Remarkable.... Like all great novelists, all great people, [John Berger] guides his characters and his readers tenderly and with intimate humor. There is the voice of Isaiah and Jeremiah in this book, but also the compassion of a New Testament."

-- Michael Ondaatje

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The conclusion of the three-volume "Into Their Labours" follows Zsuzsa and Sucus, two peasants living in the global city of Troy, who meet and embark on an odyssey of love, desperation, passion and survival amid the ruins of modern civilization

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679737197
• ISBN 13: 9780679737193
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 188