The Red Tenda of Bologna
By (Author) John Berger
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
26th February 2018
22nd February 2018
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Short stories
Paperback
64
Width 111mm, Height 161mm, Spine 4mm
44g
Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry 'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.' A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the visionary thinker and art critic.
John Berger was born in London in 1926. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, to live in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.