Corker's Freedom
A Novel

A powerfully unsettling, mordantly witty story about the pitfalls of free will. In the course of a day, the ageing owner of an employment agency is propelled into a fantasy world through his romantic yearnings and inarticulate dreams, seeking an illusory freedom from the bonds of responsibility.

Praise for From A to X

"John Berger has found a voice perfectly fitted to express an emotional sincerity quite rare in fiction at the moment..." Ursula le Guin, Guardian

"This is a book of controlled rage sculpted with tools of tenderness and a searing political vision." Arundhati Roy on From A to X

"One of the most tender and poignant books I have read for many years. Its power rests in its economy of means, its account of enduring love surviving oppression." Harold Pinter

"The record of one restless, committed, brilliant consciousness; a late showcase of a mind and sensibility of astonishing range and depth." Melissa Benn, Independent

Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His body of work has explored the relationships between the individual and society, culture and politics and experience and expression in a series of works unmatched in their diversity, ambition and reach.

A powerfully unsettling, mordantly witty story about the pitfalls of free will. In the course of a day, the ageing owner of an employment agency is propelled into a fantasy world through his romantic yearnings and inarticulate dreams, seeking an illusory freedom from the bonds of responsibility.