Into Their Labours Series by John Berger

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  • Pig Earth (Into Their Labours #1)
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    Pig Earth (Into Their Labours #1)

    John Berger

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings · published 1979

    Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of sceptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women. This book is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing.

  • Once In Europa (Into Their Labours #2)
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    Once In Europa (Into Their Labours #2)

    John Berger

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1987

    A collection of interwoven stories, this 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. Lives are lost and hearts broken.

  • Lilac and Flag (Into Their Labours #3)
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    Lilac and Flag (Into Their Labours #3)

    John Berger

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 1990

    As Dickens and Balzac did for their time, so John Berger does for ours, rendering the movement of a people and the passing of a way of life in his masterwork, the Into Their Labours trilogy. With Lilac and Flag, the Alpine village of the two earlier volumes has been forsaken for the mythic city of Troy. Here, amidst the shantytowns, factories, and opulent hotels, fading heritages and steadfast dreams, the children and grandchildren of rural peasants pursue meager livings as best they can... more

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