{"product_id":"a-seventh-man-isbn-9781804298565","title":"A Seventh Man","description":"Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In \u003ci\u003eA Seventh Man\u003c\/i\u003e, John Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant worker—the material circumstances and the inner experience—and, in doing so, reveal how the migrant is not so much on the margins of modern life, but absolutely central to it. First published in 1975, this finely wrought exploration remains as urgent as ever, presenting a mode of living that pervades the countries of the West and yet is excluded from much of its culture.\"I admire and love John Berger’s books. He writes about what is important, not just interesting—in contemporary English letters, he seems to be peerless; 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Susan Sontag\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is ever more timely.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Geoff Dyer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"His most remarkable book\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I found opening \u003ci\u003eA Seventh Man \u003c\/i\u003eagain troubling, even mournful. Because its prescience is matched by its nuance…This is why Berger is such a significant presence, still. He was a writer beyond the noble occupation of the critic, not just in the forms of literature he engaged in but in his wide-ranging, generation-traversing humanity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ben Luke, \u003ci\u003eThe Art Newspaper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Today, \u003ci\u003eA Seventh Man\u003c\/i\u003e emerges as a prescient work, when read against a sea of startling images arriving all the time from Lesvos, Lampedusa, the US southern border, the Rafa? crossing. Yet the book is also of a piece with experimental art of its own era. Joshua Sperling, author of \u003ci\u003eA Writer of Our Time\u003c\/i\u003e, sees its abrupt cuts and shifts in perspective in the vein of Jean-Luc Godard and the militant Dziga Vertov Group.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Nicholas Gamso, \u003ci\u003ee-flux\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eStoryteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, \u003cb\u003eJohn Berger\u003c\/b\u003e is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include \u003ci\u003eWays of Seeing\u003c\/i\u003e, the fiction trilogy \u003ci\u003eInto Their Labours\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHere Is Where We Meet\u003c\/i\u003e, the Booker Prize-winning novel \u003ci\u003eG\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHold Everything Dear\u003c\/i\u003e, the Man Booker–longlisted \u003ci\u003eFrom A to X\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Seventh Man\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean Mohr\u003c\/b\u003e‘s longstanding collaboration with John Berger has produced five books, including \u003ci\u003eA Seventh Man\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Fortunate Man\u003c\/i\u003e. Among his other works are \u003ci\u003eAfter the Last Sky\u003c\/i\u003e (with Edward Said) and \u003ci\u003eSide by Side or Face to Face\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Geneva, Switzerland.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48232897380581,"sku":"NP9781804298565","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781804298565.jpg?v=1767720778","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-seventh-man-isbn-9781804298565","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}