When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

had been an infantry officer on the western front during the First World War. His recent novels include To the Wedding a love story dealing with the AIDS crisis stemming from his own familial experience and King: A Street Story a novel on homeless and shantytown life told from the perspective of a street dog. Berger O.

John Peter Berger (born 5 November 1926) is an English art critic novelist painter and poet. His novel G.