G. (novel)

G. is a 1972 novel by English writer John Berger, set in pre–First World War Europe. 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 the Guardian Fiction Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction and the Booker Prize. At the 1972 Booker Prize ceremony, Berger criticised the sponsor Booker-McConnell for exploiting trade in the Caribbean for the past 130 years. Berger also gave half of the prize money to the British Black Panther movement, declaring his intention "to share the prize with those West Indians in and from the Caribbean who are fighting to put an end to their exploitation."