From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa 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: the passion of a willful shepherd for a shrewd bourgeois housewife; of a vital young woman for a dashing Russian who has come to work in the local factory; of a stead.
From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, a luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa 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