Booker Prize Winners Book Club - G. by John Berger
About this Event
Join us for our Booker Prize Winners book club where we discuss some of the many and varied winners of this prestigious literary award over the years.
This month we'll be discussing G. by John Berger - Winner of the Booker Prize 1972.
A classic work of fiction from a modern master that deserves to be rediscovered, G is a timeless, luminous novel about a modern Don Juan.
John Berger relates the story of G., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the last century as Europe teeters on the brink of war.
With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what happens during sex, to reveal the conditions of the libertine's success: his essential loneliness, the quiet cumulation in each of his sexual experiences of all of those that precede it, the tenderness that infuses even the briefest of his encounters, and the way women experience their own extraordinariness through their liaisons with him.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of Garibaldi's attempt to unite Italy, the failed revolution of Milanese workers in 1898, the Boer War and the dramatic first flight across the Alps, G. is a brilliant novel about the search for intimacy in the turmoil of history.
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