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Here is Where We Meet John Berger

Here is Where We Meet By John Berger

Here is Where We Meet by John Berger


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Summary

A collection of linked stories that are fiction and yet have elements of autobiography.

Here is Where We Meet Summary

Here is Where We Meet by John Berger

No one appreciates the detail of being alive more than the dead. In Lisbon, a city that plays games, a man, John, encounters his mother sitting on a park bench. She laughs with the impudence of a seventeen-year-old schoolgirl. She has been dead fifteen years. In the Islington home of Hubert, his fellow student at art school, John remembers a girl he knew back then. To touch her skin was to sense a horizon, to be transported. He used to call her Oslo In this nomadic book which travels through fictions across Europe, seemingly disparate stories reveal themselves to be linked, mislaid objects find their place. Sensual memories from the past penetrate the present like salt. Cities - Madrid, Krakow, Lisbon, Geneva, London - are mapped as redolent hybrids of old world and new. As it passes frontiers and time-zones, Here is Where We Meet is beautiful, playful and unexpected.

Here is Where We Meet Reviews

'John Berger is genius invisible. His life's work is synonymous with the creation of unforgettable living portraits.' Scotland on Sunday '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 'Berger's clarity, passion and independence put him closer to the heart of things than many a more famous name.' Mail on Sunday

About John Berger

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 fiction, Here Is Where We Meet is published by Bloomsbury in 2005.

Additional information

GOR001780394
9780747573173
0747573174
Here is Where We Meet by John Berger
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20050321
256
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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