I admire and love John Berger's books. He writes about what is important, not just interesting-in contemporary English letters, he seems to be peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience. He is a wonderful artist and thinker.

- Susan Sontag,

This book is ever more timely.

- Geoff Dyer,

His most remarkable book

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Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant worker-the material circumstances and the inner experience-and, in doing so, reveal how the migrant is not so much on the margins of modern life, but absolutely central to it. First published in 1975, this finely wrought exploration remains as urgent as ever, presenting a mode of living that pervades the countries of the West and yet is excluded from much of its culture.
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John Berger introduces a new edition of his seminal study of migrant workers, illustrated by photographer Jean Mohr.
New edition of this seminal exploration of migrant workers

Product details

ISBN
9781844676491
Published
2010-10-18
Edition
2. edition
Publisher
Verso Books
Weight
277 gr
Height
198 mm
Width
130 mm
Thickness
17 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
248

Author

Biographical note

Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, Here Is Where We Meet, the Booker Prize-winning novel G, Hold Everything Dear, the Man Booker-longlisted From A to X, and A Seventh Man.