As Dickens and Balzac did for their time, so John Berger does for ours, rendering the movement of a people and the passing of a way of life in h... read full description
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Oct 18, 2011
Andrea
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This was a completion of a beautiful trilogy of life in France. Lilac and Flag parallels Helen of Troy-greek stories, it was about love, it was a fable, a legend. In some of my reading I like to explore the boundaries of human nature, yet I have come to realize there really are no boundaries. France, a beautiful and amazing country entered into my fiction reading and carried on to make next choice after this which was Les Miserables by Victor Hugo.
Oct 12, 2007
Pam
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Read this in 2003 and reading it again now.
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Finished reading 'Lilac and Flag' first published in 1992 - I think it was a kind of prototype for John Berger's later 'King : A Street Story' in 1999 - a fantastic tale from a disintegrating Europe told by a dog called 'King', a companion of the homeless
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Finished reading 'Lilac and Flag' first published in 1992 - I think it was a kind of prototype for John Berger's later 'King : A Street Story' in 1999 - a fantastic tale from a disintegrating Europe told by a dog called 'King', a companion of the homeless
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