To the Wedding

To the Wedding is a 1995 novel by the British author John Berger about lovers Gino and Ninon who are getting married and how they, and the people around them, manage to overcome death and fate and create meaning in their lives.

They part, and she visits the restaurant again the following day only to hear from the chef that the man was an escaped convict and had been arrested by the police.

The novel is a strongly existential novel, responding to the void of meaninglessness and futility presented in the novel Heart of Darkness.

The characters are not consumed, but manage to oppose the darkness of an amoral and uncaring world by finding meaning in the tasks they do.

Jean Ferrero, Ninon's father, travels on his motorbike through vast landscapes and impenetrable darkness.