num_pages: 179
description: With this haunting first volume in his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of skeptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women; of calves born and pigs slaughtered; of summer haymaking and long dark winters of rest; of the message of forgiveness from a dead father to his prodigal son; and of the marvelous Lucie Cabrol, exiled to a hut high in the mountains, an inexorable part of the lives of men who have known her. Above all, this masterpiece of sensuous description and profound moral resonance is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing.
language: English
title: Pig Earth: Book One of the Into Their Labours Trilogy
titlecomplete: Pig Earth: Book One of the Into Their Labours Trilogy
genres: Fiction, France, Nature, Short Stories, Poetry, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 1349
places: France
series: Into Their Labours
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group