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A review by ronanmcd
Here is where We Meet by John Berger
5.0
I am part-way through. There is a lovely moment I must note down.
The book is a fiction, wound around the details of the author's life. He meets his dead mother and tells her he working on an autobiography.
She advises him not to, he will get it wrong
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I have now finished it.
It is a wonderful, melodic book. A quiet meditation on the unspoken minutiae of the details in our relationships. There is a gossamer melancholy throughout, a sense of the frailty of life and the bonds we form. But this same feeling is a celebration of these details, of the smaller parts that make instances memorable.
The book is a fiction, wound around the details of the author's life. He meets his dead mother and tells her he working on an autobiography.
She advises him not to, he will get it wrong
______
I have now finished it.
It is a wonderful, melodic book. A quiet meditation on the unspoken minutiae of the details in our relationships. There is a gossamer melancholy throughout, a sense of the frailty of life and the bonds we form. But this same feeling is a celebration of these details, of the smaller parts that make instances memorable.