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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 9781419397219 ISBN: 1419397214 Label: Recorded Books Manufacturer: Recorded Books Number Of Items: 4 Publication Date: 2006-03 Publisher: Recorded Books Studio: Recorded Books Editorial Review: Amazon.com Review: With the sensuous eye and profound sense of history that have made him one of the most acclaimed living novelists, John Berger, author of G., tells the story of a wedding that takes place in a Europe that is approaching the end of the century, a place where everything has changed - and not even the certainties of love are exempt. This is Berger's fin de siecle , a transcendent celebration of passion at the end of our millennium. Product Description: Mr. Berger's prose is lean, unembellished and metrical. This book is far more than yet another sincere attempt to encompass the arbitrariness and injustice of AIDS. It is about the natural grandeur of human love. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Looking at love...Berger's To the Wedding magically extends the author's critical vision which he has elaborated in both Ways of Seeing and On Looking. In those essay collections, Berger establishes himself as a champion of creative looking - looking as a way of gleaning knowledge, beauty and understanding. To the Wedding is narrated by a blind peddler of tamata, stamped metal charms, who is tied to two of his customers, a father and daughter, by a gift of intimate vision. He is the omniscient narrator, a blind ... Read More Rating:  - A balm for all the scars of life...This was definitely a different reading experience for me. At first I wasn't quite sure what was going on, or what the point was, but when I got to about page 75, it suddenly all started coming together. So a word of advice to anyone having trouble "getting into" this one: Just keep going! It does make sense eventually. I can't reveal too much without spoiling the story, but after the relatively long "set up" period, the story really does start to move. Once I understood what was happening, I couldn't ... Read More Rating:  - Sorry but I disagree...I am going to be the lone voice in the wilderness... I could not get into this book, could not make it past the first thirty pages. The narrative voice rambles from first person to third person, often it is not clear what is going on... I think this is a challenging book and most certainly is not a novel for somebody who is looking for a light read. Rating: - Life changingThis book is both beautiful and devestating. It is lyric and direct. Heart wrneching and hopeful. This book is contradictory and yet realistic in its contradictions. This book absolutely changed the way I read, and I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Pull out the kleenex, though. A friend of mine recommended this book to me in 1996. In the past six years I have come back to it time and again for its sheer beauty. This is not one to miss. Rating: - UnconditionalThere is an event in this book that demonstrates the wonderful manner that John Berger consistently illuminates his readers, and his characters. The task in and of itself is of no great note; a small boat is guided from the shore to a small island. Gino who is taking his reluctant fiancé on the trip guides the boat. Ninon is not concerned about the trip rather Gino's insistence that they marry. The trip to the island is accomplished in several steps to allow for currents both known and unpredictable. ... Read More |
