


With this haunting first volume in his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of skeptical, hard-working men and fiercely...

In a small village in Alpine, France, Berger creates an unforgettable picture of a vanishing way of life and the people who live it. A work of art.--Washington Post.



