Author: John Berger
Translator: Su-jeong Kang
Publisher: Yeolhwadang
Hardcover | 232 pages | 230*148mm
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About This Book
One of the most widely admired writers of our time returns us to the captivating
play and narrative allure of his previous novels - G. and To the Wedding among
them - with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.
One hot afternoon in Lisbon, our narrator, John, finds his mother, who had died
fifteen years earlier, seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they
are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple
yet gorgeous prose and with the openness to personal and political currents that
has always marked John Berger’s work.
Having promised his mother that he will henceforth pay close attention to the
dead, John takes us to a woman’s bed during the 1943 bombardment of London, to a
Polish market where carrier pigeons are sold, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz
Hotel in Madrid. Along the way, we meet an English aristocrat who always drives
barefoot, a pedophile schoolmaster, a Spanish sculptor who cheats at poker, and
Rosa Luxemburg, among other long-gone presences, and John lets us choose to love
each of them as much as he still does.
This is a unique literary journey in which a writer’s life and work are
inseparable: a fiction but not a conventional novel, a narration in the author’s
voice but not a memoir, a portrait that moves freely through time and space but
never loses its foothold in the present, a confession that brings with it not
regret but a rich deepening of sensual and emotional understanding.
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