| Once in Europa: Book Two of the Into Their Labours Trilogy Contributor(s): Berger, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679737162 ISBN-13: 9780679737162 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 92050075 |
| Series: Into Their Labours |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.21" W x 8.83" (0.52 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 to work in the local factory; of a steadfast son for his aged mother. Lives are lost and hearts are broken, and, always, love is a transcending form of grace. In Once in Europa, it speaks as plainly and as movingly as a remembered language, creating a work of astonishing tenderness. |