Lilac and Flag: Book Three of the Into Their Labours Trilogy (Vintage International)

From Booker Prize-winning author John Berger Lilac and Flag wherein the Alpine village of the two earlier volumes of the Into Their Labours trilogy has been forsaken for the mythic city of Troy. Here amidst the shantytowns factories and opulent hotels fading heritages and steadfast dreams the children and grandchildren of rural peasants pursue meager livings as best they can. And here two young lovers embark upon a passionate desperate journey of love and survival and find transcending hope both for themselves and for us as their witnesses.