Pig Earth

by John Berger

Overview

With this haunting first volume in his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of skeptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women; of calves born and pigs slaughtered; of summer haymaking and long dark winters of rest; of the message of forgiveness from a dead father to his prodigal son; and of the marvelous Lucie Cabrol, exiled to a hut high in the mountains, an inexorable part of the lives of men who have known her. Above all, this masterpiece of sensuous description and profound moral resonance is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679737155
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/27/1992
Series:	Vintage International , #1
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	1,077,176
Product dimensions:	5.21(w) x 7.91(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and lived in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.

Editorial Reviews

Three volumes of somber, masterfully crafted stories trace the lives of peasants in the French Alps. (Nov.)

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