false 52934 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 52934 5 343893 2005 Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths total:76|5:25|4:27|3:15|2:5|1:4| 76 292 145 14 29919 4.00 3111 378 36081404 728291 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 62 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 4 1 false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Oct 23 22:51:40 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 06 12:39:22 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4495569 44414 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 5 1 false Mon Aug 13 15:59:19 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 05:02:39 -0800 2009
my favorite quotes:
"If you have to cry, he said, and sometimes ...more...]]> 45460719 1008236 52931 0375423362 9780375423369 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397419m/52931.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397419s/52931.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52931.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_fiction 3.56 9
One hot afternoon in Lisbon, our narrator, John, finds his mother, who had died fifteen years earlier, seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose and with the openness to personal and political currents that has always marked John Berger’s work.

Having promised his mother that he will henceforth pay close attention to the dead, John takes us to a woman’s bed during the 1943 bombardment of London, to a Polish market where carrier pigeons are sold, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Along the way, we meet an English aristocrat who always drives barefoot, a pedophile schoolmaster, a Spanish sculptor who cheats at poker, and Rosa Luxemburg, among other long-gone presences, and John lets us choose to love each of them as much as he still does.

This is a unique literary journey in which a writer’s life and work are inseparable: a fiction but not a conventional novel, a narration in the author’s voice but not a memoir, a portrait that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the present, a confession that brings with it not regret but a rich deepening of sensual and emotional understanding.]]> 2005 0 0 false Thu Feb 05 09:36:28 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:36:28 -0800 2009 Though critics can't agree exactly what genre Berger is working in ("autobiographical fiction, fictional autobiography, or maybe a hybrid of breviary, consecration, and ancestor worship," says Harper's), the praise for his writing comes so close to unanimity that classification seems besid...

more...]]> 35940267 891838 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 4 0 false Fri Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 09:59:40 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 10:14:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 49216840 2116632 2346281 0747573174 9780747573173 1 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2346281.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet 4.40 5 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 5 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Mar 13 21:45:43 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 21:47:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 36616294 204702 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 0 0 false Fri Oct 31 06:33:25 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 06:33:25 -0700 2008
All th...more...]]> 33712941 1477558 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 4 0 false Wed Sep 24 08:30:29 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 24 08:34:57 -0700 2008 more...]]> 53507351 1971848 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 1 0 false Tue Apr 21 15:07:51 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 17:58:50 -0700 2009 2849854 129335 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 5 0 false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 08 21:18:07 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 17 00:00:10 -0800 2009
It's been years since I read "Ways of Seeing" for one of my art classes, and when a friend of mine got this for me, I was very excited to see something by Berger again.

It's an incredibly easy / fast r...more...]]> 24673665 314508 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 5 0 false Thu Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jun 16 19:52:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 20:05:19 -0700 2008
Berger is one of my favorite authors and this is his most recent book. It reads like a magic-realism memoir, with wonderful images and wise reflections on life.

Favorite Quote (One of many): What is in motion is neither ...more...]]> 20220062 1085444 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 1 0 false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Apr 15 09:16:24 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 09:17:06 -0700 2008 22580613 1174128 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 5 0 false Mon May 19 17:17:57 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 19:06:57 -0700 2008 8582584 291638 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 3 0 false Mon Jul 21 22:03:32 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 02 15:41:17 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 21 22:03:32 -0700 2008 35487618 420526 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 5 0 false Thu Oct 16 14:01:44 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 14:01:58 -0700 2008 80633684 1439240 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 0 0 false Fri Dec 11 00:48:49 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 11 00:48:49 -0800 2009 79631669 45238 52931 0375423362 9780375423369 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397419m/52931.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397419s/52931.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52931.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_fiction 3.84 76
One hot afternoon in Lisbon, our narrator, John, finds his mother, who had died fifteen years earlier, seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose and with the openness to personal and political currents that has always marked John Berger’s work.

Having promised his mother that he will henceforth pay close attention to the dead, John takes us to a woman’s bed during the 1943 bombardment of London, to a Polish market where carrier pigeons are sold, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Along the way, we meet an English aristocrat who always drives barefoot, a pedophile schoolmaster, a Spanish sculptor who cheats at poker, and Rosa Luxemburg, among other long-gone presences, and John lets us choose to love each of them as much as he still does.

This is a unique literary journey in which a writer’s life and work are inseparable: a fiction but not a conventional novel, a narration in the author’s voice but not a memoir, a portrait that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the present, a confession that brings with it not regret but a rich deepening of sensual and emotional understanding.]]> 2005 0 0 false Wed Dec 02 07:14:09 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 02 07:14:09 -0800 2009 78100997 1688381 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 0 0 false Tue Nov 17 11:50:39 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 11:50:39 -0800 2009 77930636 2635346 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 0 0 false Sun Nov 15 22:43:03 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 22:43:03 -0800 2009 77840741 2223559 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 0 0 false Sun Nov 15 07:22:36 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 07:22:36 -0800 2009 77152713 931673 52934 1400079330 9781400079339 12 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420m/52934.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170397420s/52934.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52934.Here_Is_Where_We_Meet_A_Story_of_Crossing_Paths 3.84 76 G. and To the Wedding among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.

One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. “The dead don’t stay where they are buried,” she tells him. And so begins a remarkable odyssey, told in simple yet gorgeous prose, that carries us from the London Blitz in 1943, to a Polish market, to a Paleolithic cave, to the Ritz Hotel in Madrid. Here Is Where We Meet is a unique literary journey that moves freely through time and space but never loses its foothold in the sensuous present.]]> 2005 0 0 false Sun Nov 08 18:32:26 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 18:32:26 -0800 2009 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=52934