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In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives Ars"ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, Ars"idars"s letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But the town is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroaches from outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity assume for Ars"ida a life-affirming significance, acts of resistance against the forces that might otherwise extinguish them.

Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, Here Is Where We Meet, the Booker Prize-winning novel G, Hold Everything Dear, the Man Booker–longlisted From A to X, and A Seventh Man.