To the Wedding: rejacketed
John Berger
Oct 2026 · Bloomsbury GB Audio · Narrated by Alex Jennings
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Bloomsbury presents To the Wedding by John Berger, read by Alex Jennings.
The centenary edition, with an introduction by Nadeem Aslam.
‘You have a voice that couldn’t lie. There are voices that can’t lie.’
A blind Greek pedlar listens as a mother and father, estranged for years, travel across Europe to their daughter’s wedding.
Ninon is marrying Gino in Italy. She is twenty-three years old and she is dying of AIDS. Fragments of conversations, songs and silence blend in a swirl of vignettes that are both tragic and joyous, erotic and wise.
On their wedding day, Ninon takes off her shoes and dances barefoot with Gino as if they will never grow tired, as if their happiness is eternal, as if death will never touch them. To the Wedding is a novel of heartache, of hope and of a love that triumphs over death.
‘One of the greatest and most honest love stories of our time’ Colum McCann
‘No one knows more about the necessity of love than John Berger’ Anne Michaels
‘A masterpiece . . . a novel that will haunt you’ Sunday Telegraph
The centenary edition, with an introduction by Nadeem Aslam.
‘You have a voice that couldn’t lie. There are voices that can’t lie.’
A blind Greek pedlar listens as a mother and father, estranged for years, travel across Europe to their daughter’s wedding.
Ninon is marrying Gino in Italy. She is twenty-three years old and she is dying of AIDS. Fragments of conversations, songs and silence blend in a swirl of vignettes that are both tragic and joyous, erotic and wise.
On their wedding day, Ninon takes off her shoes and dances barefoot with Gino as if they will never grow tired, as if their happiness is eternal, as if death will never touch them. To the Wedding is a novel of heartache, of hope and of a love that triumphs over death.
‘One of the greatest and most honest love stories of our time’ Colum McCann
‘No one knows more about the necessity of love than John Berger’ Anne Michaels
‘A masterpiece . . . a novel that will haunt you’ Sunday Telegraph
Bloomsbury presents To the Wedding by John Berger, read by Alex Jennings.
The centenary edition, with an introduction by Nadeem Aslam.
‘You have a voice that couldn’t lie. There are voices that can’t lie.’
A blind Greek pedlar listens as a mother and father, estranged for years, travel across ...
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About the author
John Berger was born in London on 5 November 1926. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight, include To the Wedding, Here is Where We Meet and the Booker Prize-winning novel, G. Amongst his outstanding studies of art and photography are About Looking, Another Way of Telling and the internationally acclaimed Ways of Seeing. He lived and worked in a small village in the French Alps, the setting for his trilogy Into Their Labours (Pig Earth, Once in Europa and Lilac and Flag). He died in early 2017.
John Berger was born in London on 5 November 1926. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight, include To the Wedding, Here is Where We Meet and the Booker Prize-winning novel, G. Amongst his outstanding studies of art and photography are About L...
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