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Hold Everything Dear : Dispatches on Survival and Resistance - John Berger

Hold Everything Dear

Dispatches on Survival and Resistance

By: John Berger

Paperback | 1 July 2025

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From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despair. Looking at Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq, he makes an impassioned attack on the poverty and loss of freedom at the heart of such unnecessary suffering. These essays offer reflections on the political at the core of artistic expression and even at the center of human existence itself.

About the Author

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.
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John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel, how to stare at things till we see what we thought wasn't there. But above all he teaches us how to love in the face of adversity. He is a master. -- Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things

One of the most influential intellectuals of our time. * Observer *

Berger's is a humane and uniquely confiding voice. -- Teju Cole

I admire and love John Berger's books ... 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

Berger is a writer one demands to know more about ... an intriguing and powerful mind and talent. * New York Times *

Powerful polemicist and precise poet. * Times *

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