From A To X A Story In Letters John Berger by John Berger 9788170463375, 9781844672882, 8170463378, 1844672883 instant download after payment.

John Berger imagines a besieged community that finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.

A’ida’s lover Xavier has been imprisoned. The whole area is now under threat, as a faceless power inexorably encroaches from outside. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A’ida’s letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and the motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. The smallest details - an intimate dance, a shared meal - assume a life-affirming significance, and become acts of resistance against the forces that might otherwise extinguish them.

"John Berger has given us an exquisite thing. This is a book of controlled rage sculpted with tools of tenderness and a searing political vision."   -  Arundhati Roy

"From A to X is one of the most tender and poignant books I have read for many years. Its power rests in its economy of means, its account of enduring love surviving oppression. It demonstrates that however foul the forces oppressing us, love and the human spirit are indestructible."   -  Harold Pinter

John Berger was born in London. In 1962, he left Britain permanently, to live in a small village in the French Alps. His acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G, which won the Booker Prize in 1972. He died in 2017.