And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

[John Berger is] a great prose poet of homesickness, of the yearning to belong. Surging from the immediate and erotic to the historical and social, his vision is as grand as it is drastic—Peter Schjeldahl, The New York Times

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos may be the most original of John Berger’s books; certainly, it is among the most moving. A meditation on first and last things, it is divided into two parts, one reflecting on humanity’s relation to time, the other on our place in space. Berger considers the role of storytelling and the power of poetry and painting, and above all—because a letter addressed to the absent beloved resonates throughout the pages of this book—is the renewing and unsettling persistence of love and desire.