Product Description

"Hold Everything Dear" is John Berger's vital response to today's global economic and military tyranny. From Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and 7/7, to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, it is a profound meditation on what political resistance means today, by one of the most compelling radical voices of our age. Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include "Ways of Seeing", the fiction trilogy "Into Their Labours" and, most recently, "Here Is Where We Meet".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #49894 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Review
"powerful polemicist and precise poet." The Times "Any book by John Berger is an event... admirers will recognize the characteristic blend of sympathy and lucidity, directness of address, human warmth, and cosmopolitan example." Times Literary Supplement "Berger is never less than eloquent... a heartfelt advocate of those without hope." Metro"

Customer Reviews

Thank you John Berger
Thank you John Berger for ALL your books. Especial thanks for 'Hold Everything Dear'- Dispatches on Survival and Resistance. This book opens with a 12.05 essay: "Everywhere one goes in Palestine - even in rural areas - one finds oneself amongst rubble, picking a way through round and over it." After recently watching Gaza's destruction by war criminals 18/24 on al jazeera, this is sadly even more true today. Some essays end with "The stance of undefeated despair works like this." The 'undefeated despair' is a theme of Berger's book, illustrated with many beautiful poems. Berger stretches my soul, leads me to other authors. Berger writes from a mountain of courage, wisdom and great compassion. He much deserves the Nobel Literature Prize.