With the sensuous eye and profound sense of history that have made him one of the most acclaimed novelists writing in English, John Berger tells the story of a wedding. But this wedding 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. Gino and Ninon are getting married; they are making a claim on the future. Their stories - and those of Ninon´s mother and father, who separated long ago and now journey toward each other from the ends of the continent5 - are told by a blind Greek peddler, who hears everything: waterfalls, the roar of a motorcycle, prayers, the chat of computer hackers, the music that Ninon will dance to on her wedding day. Here is a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and erotic, a transcendent celebration of passion at the end of our millennium.
With the sensuous eye and profound sense of history that have made him one of the most acclaimed novelists writing in English, John Berger tells the story of a wedding. But this wedding 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. Gino and Ninon are getting married; they are making a claim on the future. Their stories - and those of Ninon´s mother and father, who separated long ago and now journey toward each other from the ends of the continent5 - are told by a blind Greek peddler, who hears everything: waterfalls, the roar of a motorcycle, prayers, the chat of computer hackers, the music that Ninon will dance to on her wedding day. Here is a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and erotic, a transcendent celebration of passion at the end of our millennium.
With the sensuous eye and profound sense of history that have made him one of the most acclaimed novelists writing in English, John Berger tells the story of a wedding. But this wedding 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. Gino and Ninon are getting married; they are making a claim on the future. Their stories - and those of Ninon´s mother and father, who separated long ago and now journey toward each other from the ends of the continent5 - are told by a blind Greek peddler, who hears everything: waterfalls, the roar of a motorcycle, prayers, the chat of computer hackers, the music that Ninon will dance to on her wedding day. Here is a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and erotic, a transcendent celebration of passion at the end of our millennium.
