| From A to X: A Story in Letters Contributor(s): Berger, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1844673618 ISBN-13: 9781844673612 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: In From A to X: A Story in Letters, internationally-acclaimed author John Berger conjures an epistolary romance between an insurgent named Xavier and his beloved A'ida. With every letter, a larger sense of their world emerges: Xavier's revolutionary activities, for which he was imprisoned, are revealed as A'ida narrates the ongoing disappearance of neighbors and friends from the village, and the military planes flying overhead. A story of love defying oppression, From A to X is a deeply moving meditation on resistance, and the strength of the human spirit. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.50 lbs) 208 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But the town is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroaches from outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity assume for A'ida a life-affirming significance, acts of resistance against the forces that might otherwise extinguish them. |