And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

Reissued to coincide with the London-wide celebration of Berger’s work ‘Here Is Where We Meet’ (also the title of his latest work of fiction), And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos is unclassifiable. These short pieces occupy the borderland between essay, poem and story (the publisher suggests on the back cover that we should call the collection ‘a book of love letters’), addressing in spare, lucid prose and verse the big issues – mortality, art, love – and the small – a spray of lilac on the window-sill, the sight of a hare on the border between France and Italy. This is one of Berger’s most beautiful books, and probably his most unforgettable.

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