And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial experience of viewing lilacs at dusk, and explores the meaning of home to early man and to the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in our cities today. And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos is a seamless fusion of the political and personal.

• Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (Vintage International)
• The Shape of a Pocket
• About Looking
• Landscapes: John Berger on Art
• Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series (Penguin Books for Art)
• John Berger: Understanding a Photograph
• Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths
• Selected Essays
• The Sense of Sight
• Confabulations