From A to X
A Story in Letters
Published on 30. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-80429-989-0 (ISBN)
Description
From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms its highest values through struggle. John Berger presents a community which, besieged by economic and military oppression, finds transcendent hope in the pain, fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.
Reviews / Votes
An exquisitely written and constructed novel. * Sunday Times * Berger has given us an exquisite thing. This is a book of controlled rage sculpted with tools of tenderness and a searing political vision -- Arundhati Roy Berger has found a voice perfectly fitted to express an emotional sincerity quite rare in fiction at the moment. -- Ursula Le Guin One of the most tender and poignant books I have read for many years. Its power rests in its economy of means, its account of enduring love surviving oppression. It demonstrates that however foul the forces oppressing us, love and the human spirit are indestructible -- Harold Pinter best understood, like all Berger's best work, as the record of one restless, committed, brilliant consciousness; a late showcase of a mind and sensibility of astonishing range and depth, which should be read as an epic poem or a lyrical essay as much as a novel -- Melissa Benn * Independent * This little book is magic... It is original and graceful, sustained by a quiet rage. -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times * Wrought with a miniaturist's precision * New York Times *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
167 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80429-989-0 (9781804299890)
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Person
Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing; the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours; Here Is Where We Meet; the Booker Prize-winning novel G; Hold Everything Dear; the Man Booker-longlisted From A to X; and A Seventh Man.