| Here Is Where We Meet Contributor(s): Berger, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400079330 ISBN-13: 9781400079339 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2006 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: 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, the narrator finds his long-dead mother 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, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. "Here Is Where We Meet "is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Visionary & Metaphysical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 5.3" W x 7.96" (0.44 lbs) 256 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, 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 Pig Earth among them-with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.
One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother 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, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present. |