From A to X: A Story in Letters

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In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A’ida. Her insurgent lover 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 area is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroaches from outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity—an intimate dance, a shared meal—assume for A’ida a life-affirming significance, acts of resistance against the forces that might otherwise extinguish them.

From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.

Language: English

Pages: 199

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Verso

Release: September 17, 2008

ISBN: 1844672883

ISBN 13: 9781844672882

From A to X: A Story in Letters

John Berger

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Language: English

Pages: 199

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Verso

Release: September 17, 2008

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