G.

In this novel Berger relates the story of G., a young man forging en energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the twentieth century. Berger explores the hearts and minds of men and women, and what happens during sex, to reveal the conditions of Don Juan's success. His essential loneliness, the quiet cumulation in each of his sexual experiences of all of those that precede it, the tenderness that infuses even the briefest of his encounters, and the way women experience their own extraordinaries through their moments with him. This is set against the turbulent backdrop of Garibaldi and the failed revolution of Milanese workers in 1898, the Boer war, and the first flight across the Alps. This novel explores the search for intimacy in history's private moments.