A reissued edition of this classic Booker Prize-winning novel
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.
Fascinating ... an extraordinary mixture of historical detail and
sexual meditation ... G. belongs in the tradition of George Eliot,
Tolstoy, D. H. Lawrence and Norman Mailer
*New York Times*
Its energy and invention remains alive ... Michael Ondaatje, most
notably, seems to have learned an awful lot from this book, both in
terms of its fractured narrative techniques and the way the fleshy
frailty of human characters is so exposed by the technology of the
early modern age ... Berger also shares Ondaatje's ability to
produce wonderful set pieces
*Guardian*
The most interesting novel in English I have read for many years
... It is one of the few serious attempts for 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
*The New Republic*
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