To the Wedding: A Novel (Vintage International) - Softcover

Berger, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679767770 ISBN 13: 9780679767770

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1996

Synopsis

We are in the new Europe, where political freedom moves in concert with the play of human desire. We are listening to the voices of a blind Greek peddler, of Gino, and of Gino's fiancee, Ninon. We follow Ninon's mother in Bratislava, and her father in the South of France, as they begin their separate journeys to the Italian coastal village where Ninon and Gino will wed. And through their journeys, Ninon's story unfolds: how her parents met, the events of her childhood, her first romance, how she fell in love with Gino, then rejected Gino's love, and how she was finally won over by him to marriage. On her wedding day Ninon will kick off her shoes and dance forever with Gino as the band strikes up Last Friday Drives Monday Crazy. This is the story of a wedding such as could only take place at the end of our century.

About this title

Review:

"A deceptively simple story about a HIV-positive woman, it may not be a happy story but there is an undeniable optimism to it." -- The Observer, 7th July 2002

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679767770
• ISBN 13: 9780679767770
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208