| G. | |
| Author: | John Berger |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Release Date: | 1972 |
| Media Type: | |
| Pages: | 318 |
| Isbn: | 0-297-99423-9 |
G. is a 1972 novel by John Berger, set in pre-First World War Europe.[1] Its protagonist, named "G.", is a Don Juan or Casanova-like lover of women who gradually comes to political consciousness after misadventures across the continent. Berger's experimental, non-linear narrative novel won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and the Booker Prize. At the Booker Prize ceremony Berger criticized the sponsor Booker-McConnall for exploiting trade in the Caribbean for the past 130 years.[2] Berger also gave half of the prize money to the British Black Panther movement.[3]