G.

G. is a novel by the English writer John Berger, published in 1972 and set in Europe before the First World War. It won the Booker Prize as well as the Guardian Fiction Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

The protagonist is a man known only by the initial G., a Don Juan figure who moves from one affair to the next across the continent. Berger tells his story in a non-linear and deliberately experimental form, with the narrative breaking off into essays and digressions rather than following him in a straight line.

As the misadventures accumulate, G. comes to political consciousness, which is the direction the whole book is pointed in. At the prize ceremony Berger used the occasion to criticise the sponsor for its history of trade in the Caribbean, and he gave half of his prize money to the British Black Panther movement, saying that he wanted to share it with the West Indians fighting against the exploitation of their region. Berger was a critic and essayist as well as a novelist, and the interruptions in the narrative are part of its argument about how a story should be told.