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From John Berger, the Booker Prize-winning author of G., A Painter of Our Time is at once a gripping intellectual and moral detective story and a book whose aesthetic insights make it a companion piece to Berger's great works of art criticism. The year is 1956. Soviet tanks are rolling into Budapest. In London, an expatriate Hungarian painter named Janos Lavin has disappeared following a triumphant one-man show at a fashionable gallery. Where ...

From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa is a portrait of two worlds-a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it-at their moment of collision. The instrument of entrapment is love: the passion of a willful shepherd for a shrewd bourgeois housewife, of a vital young woman for a dashing Russian who has come...

When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. A photograph of a gravely joyful crowd gathered on a Prague street in November 1989 provokes reflection on the meaning of democracy and the reunion of a people with long-banished hopes and dreams.With the luminous essays in Keeping a Rendezvous, we are given to see th...

In this luminous novel -- winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize -- John Berger relates the story of "G., " a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what happens during sex, to reveal the conditions of the Don Juan's success: his essential loneliness, the quiet cumulation in each of his sexual ...

Zum ersten Mal, zum 75. Geburtstag Bergers, eine repräsentative Auswahl aus seinen lyrischem Werk. Vieles davon hat er auf Reisen geschrieben, in Zügen oder nächtlichen Wartesälen. Gedichte für die Manteltasche, Liebeserklärungen und Verlustmeldungen, Gedichte aus der Emigration, über das französische Dorf, in dem er seit Jahren lebt, über Tiere, Frühlingsgras und den Mondaufgang. Ein Buch, das den Weg nachzeichnet, auf dem der große Schriftst...

Wer verbirgt sich hinter dem Kürzel G.? Gleich drei Personen betreten die Bühne in Bergers Roman: Giovanni, ein Don Juan. Garibaldi, Italiens Befreier. Geo Chavez, ein Pilot: Er erobert den Himmel. In seinem Roman, der 1972 mit dem Booker Prize ausgezeichnet wurde, spürt John Berger in einem Geschichtspanorama voller Sinnlichkeit die rebellischen Momente der Epoche vor dem ersten Weltkrieg auf.