Once in Europa

Book Two of the Into Their Labours Trilogy

Fiction & Literature, Family Life, Short Stories, Literary
Cover of the book Once in Europa by John Berger, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: John Berger ISBN: 9780307794260
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: July 13, 2011
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: John Berger
ISBN: 9780307794260
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: July 13, 2011
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

A luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa is a portrait of two worlds−a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it−at their moment of collision. The instrument of entrapment is love: the passion of a willful shepherd for a shrewd bourgeois housewife; of a vital young woman for a dashing Russian who has come to work in the local factory; of a steadfast son for his aged mother. Lives are lost and hearts are broken, and, always, love is a transcending form of grace. In Once in Europa, it speaks as plainly and as movingly as a remembered language, creating a work of astonishing tenderness.

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A luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa is a portrait of two worlds−a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it−at their moment of collision. The instrument of entrapment is love: the passion of a willful shepherd for a shrewd bourgeois housewife; of a vital young woman for a dashing Russian who has come to work in the local factory; of a steadfast son for his aged mother. Lives are lost and hearts are broken, and, always, love is a transcending form of grace. In Once in Europa, it speaks as plainly and as movingly as a remembered language, creating a work of astonishing tenderness.

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