num_pages: 176
description: 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 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 steadfast son for his aged mother. Lives are lost and hearts are broken, and, always, love is a transcending form of grace. In Once in Europa , it speaks as plainly and as movingly as a remembered language, creating a work of astonishing tenderness.
language: English
title: Once in Europa: Book Two of the Into Their Labours Trilogy
titlecomplete: Once in Europa: Book Two of the Into Their Labours Trilogy
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, British Literature, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Art, 20th Century
ratings_count: 519
places: France
series: Into Their Labours
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group