From A to X: A Story in Letters - Hardcover

Berger, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844672883 ISBN 13: 9781844672882

Verlag: Verso Books, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Berger John

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"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"

Reseña del editor

In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband 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 Suse 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844672883
• ISBN 13: 9781844672882
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 199