Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a story of love and resistance by one of our era's foremost novelists

From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms its highest values through struggle. John Berger presents a community which, besieged by economic and military oppression, finds transcendent hope in the pain, fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.

"An exquisitely written and constructed novel." - Sunday Times

"best understood, like all Berger's best work, as the record of one restless, committed, brilliant consciousness; a late showcase of a mind and sensibility of astonishing range and depth, which should be read as an epic poem or a lyrical essay as much as a novel" - Independent

"This little book is magic... It is original and graceful, sustained by a quiet rage." - Irish Times

"Wrought with a miniaturist's precision" - New York Times