And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

''Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless ... In our brief mortal lives, we are grinders of these lenses''.

When John Berger wrote this apparently unclassifiable book, it was to become a sensation, translated into nine languages and indeli...