From A to X: A Story in Letters

In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A’ida. Her insurgent lover Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A’ida’sletters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and ofits motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. Butthe area is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroachesfrom outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity–anintimate dance, a shared meal–assume for A’ida a life-affirmingsignificance, acts of resistance against the forces that mightotherwise extinguish them.

From A to X is a powerfulexploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining acommunity which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, findstranscendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrowof daily existence.

Author: John Berger
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Published: 09/30/2025
Series: The Essential John Berger
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781804299890
Language: English