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    To The Wedding

    Written by John Berger

    Narrated by Alexandra Fuller

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    In To the Wedding John Berger offers us a sharply modern situation set in the traditionally pastoral and idyllic background of rural Europe. Beautiful, vibrant Ninon falls in love and becomes engaged to a young Italian, Gino, but soon before their wedding she discovers that she has contracted HIV through a brief encounter several years earlier. She tries to break the engagement but Gino, in an act of passionate and redemptive love, insists that the marriage will occur. The wedding itself, celebrated in a little village on the Po delta, becomes a magical feast in which all the novel's lost and searching souls, including Ninon's grieving father, Jean, and her mother, Zdena, a Slovakian intellectual who left Jean and Ninon many years earlier, are drawn into the joyful circle and regenerated by the power of Gino and Ninon's timeless love. Berger demonstrates that even the cruelest fate can be endured and even transcended through courage, love, and determination.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 26, 2008
    ISBN9781436145022
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    To The Wedding
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    John Berger

    John Berger was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing (1972), the Booker prize-winning novel G (1972), Here is where we meet (2005), From A to X (2008), Cataract (with Selcuk Demirel) (2012) and most recently, Confabulations (2016).

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    • 5/5
      A stunningly beautiful meditation on love and death told in multiple voices, like a choir. The sensual details are intoxicating, as is Berger's tenderness and hope for us frail humans, even in the face of a terrible, unchangeable fate.
    • 5/5
      Poetic, lyrical in some ways...completely emotional. Probably the best review of this book is on the back cover, a quote from Michael Ondaatje "Wherever I live in the world, I know I will have this book with me." It's important to carry around the books you love and this one definitely made an impression on me both times I read it.
    • 4/5
      Ninon’s estranged parents travel across Europe to see their daughter, who is dying of AIDS, married to Gino. This book is beautifully simple in its premise, and very well written. The plot is minimal in action, but there is a beguiling sense of pace, and I loved the wedding scene at the end. Berger is a great writer – definitely one to watch.
    • 3/5
      Reads more like a poem than a straight-forward novel.
    • 4/5
      A beautiful and deeply moving book.