To the Wedding

Author(s): John Berger

Fiction

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and erotic. In To the Wedding, a blind Greek peddler tells the story of the wedding between a fellow peddler and his bride in a remarkable series of vivid and telling vignettes. As the book cinematically moves from one character's perspective to another, events and characters move toward the convergence of the wedding--and a haunting dance of love and death.


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First published in 1995, To the Wedding is a forgotten classic - the best book Berger has written and one of the most moving love stories ever written. John Berger's most recent novel, From A to X, has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008 For fans of The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje and Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels With a new introduction by Nadeem Aslam, author of Maps for Lost Lovers

'To The Wedding is one of the greatest and most honest love stories of our time. It does what all great literature can and should do -- we become alive in bodies, stories, histories, geographies not our own. We are given a new lease on life through an imaginative act. If I ever pack up my books, this novel will not go into a box, rather I will slip it into my overcoat and carry it with me wherever I happen to be' Colum McCann '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 masterpiece ... a novel that will haunt you' Sunday Telegraph 'A great, sad, and tender lyric, a novel that is a vortex of community and compassion that somehow overcomes fate and death. Wherever I live in the world, I know I will have this book with me' Michael Ondaatje

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 novel, From A to X, was published in 2008.

General Fields

  • : 9780747599395
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : 0.25
  • : April 2009
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 13mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : John Berger
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 823.914
  • : 208