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John Berger's 1972 erotic novel tells the story of an adventurous young man, his tumultuous life, and especially his many-faceted romantic adventures, in the midst of the chaos of early 20th-century Italy. Berger won the Booker Prize for this novel, and stirred up controversy when he used his acceptance speech to denounce the Booker organization for their historical colonialism in the West Indies and donated one-half his prize money to the Black Panthers. It was after this event that Berger moved permanently from his native England to the French Alps, where he has lived ever since in a peasant village, writing and farming.