Jeanette Winterson
Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press.One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Winterson was named as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Writers" in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council. She adapted Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit for BBC television in 1990 and also wrote "Great Moments in Aviation," a television screenplay directed by Beeban Kidron for BBC2 in 1994. She is editor of a series of new editions of novels by Virginia Woolf published in the UK by Vintage. She is a regular contributor of reviews and articles to many newspapers and journals and has a regular column published in The Guardian. Her radio drama includes the play Text Message, broadcast by BBC Radio in November 2001. Winterson lives in Gloucestershire and London. Her work is published in 28 countries.
12 Bytes
Jeanette Winterson
'Joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers' ObserverHow is artificial intelligence changing the way we live and love? This is the eye-opening new book from Sunday Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson.Drawing on her years of thinking and reading about AI, Jeanette Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, politics and, of course, computer science to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are happening now.With wit, compassion and curiosity, Winterson tackles AI's most interesting talking points - from the weirdness of backing up your brain and the connections between humans and non-human helpers to whether it's time to leave planet Earth.* With a new chapter by the author *'Very funny... A kind of comparative mythology, where the hype and ideology of cutting-edge tech is read through the lens of far older stories' Spectator'Refreshingly optimistic' GuardianA 'Books of 2021' Pick in the Guardian, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard
12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
Jeanette Winterson
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson
"Talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy," said Dwight Garner in the New York Times about Jeanette Winterson's latest novel, Frankissstein, which perfectly describes too this new collection of essays on the same subject of AI.
In 12 Bytes, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? Jeanette Winterson, draws on her years of thinking and reading about artificial intelligence in all its bewildering manifestations. In her brilliant, laser focused, uniquely pointed and witty style of story-telling, Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, the politics of race and gender, and computer science, to help us understand the radical changes to the way we live and love that are happening now.
When we create non-biological life-forms, will we do so in our image? Or will we accept the once-in-a-species opportunity to remake ourselves in their image? What do love, caring, sex, and attachment look like when humans form connections with non-human helpers, teachers, sex-workers, and companions? And what will happen to our deep-rooted assumptions about gender? Will the physical body that is our home soon be enhanced by biological and neural implants, keeping us fitter, younger, and connected? Is it time to join Elon Musk and leave Planet Earth?
With wit, compassion and curiosity, Winterson tackles AI's most fascinating talking points, from the algorithms that data-dossier your whole life to the weirdness of backing up your brain.
A Guardiã do Farol
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson relata uma fábula moderna sobre o poder de transformador da arte de contar histórias. Quando fica órfã, Silver é acolhida pelo Sr. Pew, o velho guardião cego do farol do cabo Wrath. Aos poucos, desenvolve-se uma relação de cumplicidade entre os dois, alinhavada por antigas histórias de saudade e solidão, de viagens através do espaço e do tempo, de paixões e traição.
Art and Lies
Jeanette Winterson
Handel is a failed priest but abiding Catholic with elitist tendencies whose work as a doctor forces him to consider social questions that he would probably rather avoid. Picasso, as she calls herself, is a young artist who has been sexually abused by her brother but whose family thinks she is at fault for her dark moods. Sappho is, indeed, Sappho, the lesbian poet of ancient Greece, who here proclaims herself a sensualist and then proceeds to dissect "the union of language and lust." The three converge in a place that may be England in a not-too-distant future made ugly by pollution and even uglier by greed. This is not a novel but an extended rift on art, sex, religion, social repression, the dangers of patriarchy, and everything that is wrong with the contemporary drift to the right. As such, it will be hard going for most readers, but those with some patience will discover exceptionally evocative writing and a vivifying review of some much-discussed contemporary issues.
Art and Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd
Jeanette Winterson
In a near-future London, Sappho, Picasso and Handel each set upon the same plan - to flee the city by train. Finding themselves fellow passengers, the poet, the painter and the musician discover their fates drawn together by the curious agency of a book.
As stories within stories unfold and journeys intersect, another world comes to the fore - one of painful beauty, where language has the power to heal.
Art & Lies
Jeanette Winterson
A novel by the author of "Oranges are not the Only Fruit", which won the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1985, "The Passion", which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1987, "Sexing the Cherry" and "Written on the Body".
Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd
Jeanette Winterson
'There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies'. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. Stories within stories take us through the unlikely love-affairs of one Doll Sneerpiece, an 18th century bawd, and into the world of painful beauty where language has the power to heal. Art & Lies is a question and a quest: How shall I live?
Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
Jeanette Winterson
In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the Mona Lisa and Virginia Woolf's The Waves , she frees them from layers of preconception and restores their power to exalt and unnerve, shock and transform us.
" Art Objects is a book to be admired for its effort to speak exorbitantly, urgently and sometimes beautifully about art and about our individual and collective need for serious art."-- Los Angeles Times
Atlas'ın Yükü
Jeanette Winterson
Metaforik anlatıların usta kalemi Jeanette Winterson, bu kez dünyanın yükünü tanrılar tarafından omuzlarında taşıma cezasına çarptırılan Atlas'ın Odysseia'da resmedilen epik öyküsünü yeniden ele alıp ona yepyeni bir son yazarak tanrıların, suçluların ve kahramanların hikâyesinden özgün bir modern zamanlar miti kurguluyor.
Geçmişin yükü ile geleceğin ağırlığı arasında sıkışıp kalan insanın yaşamını, ideallerini ve kendi sınırlarıyla muhasebesini sorgularken, mitolojinin eşsiz mirasından; hayal gücünden faydalanarak bizleri kaderin boyunduruğunu kırmaya, hayata bir yük değil, her daim yeni güzergâhlara gebe bir yolculuk olarak bakmaya davet ediyor.
“Atlas, kürekkemiklerinde dönüp duran eğik ekseni taşırken olduğu yerde kalmıştı. Bütün gücünü dünyayı sırtlamaya adamıştı. Hareketin ne demek olduğunu neredeyse unutmuştu artık. Rahat etmek için hafifçe kımıldaması bir şeyi değiştirmiyordu. O muazzam yüktü her şeye karar veren.
Neden?
Neden hemen bırakmasın onu?”
Bedende Yazılı
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson, "Bütün kitaplarım deneyseldir; biçimlerle oynar, geleneksel anlatı çizgilerini takip etmeyi reddeder ve okuyucuyu bir oyuncu olarak dahil eder," diyor. Bedende Yazılı da tam böyle bir roman. İlk bakışta basit bir aşk hikayesi; aşık olmak, yitirmek, kavuşulan sevgili... Ancak anlatıcı ve ana karakterin ismi yok, cinsiyeti belirsiz, yaşı bilinmiyor. Winterson buna rağmen arzulardan fedakarlığa, tutkudan ayrılığa kadar insani durumların resmini çizmeyi, gerçekliği şüphe götürmeyen bir aşk hikayesi anlatmayı, içine çekmeyi ve öyküyü okur için kişisel kılmayı başarıyor.
Winterson'ın her romanı benlik duygumuzu oluşturan arzular ve sınırlarla ilgili; korku, sınıf, ten rengi ya da beklentiler gibi aşmaya çalışmamız gereken sınırlar. Bedende Yazılı, aşkın insanı hem parçalayan hem de iyileştirip bütünleştiren gücünden, ölümcül bir hastalığın insanın benliğini nasıl yeniden oluşturduğuna kadar uzanıyor. Oyuna katılan okur için de bir kendini keşfetme yolculuğu vaadediyor.
Boating for Beginners
Jeanette Winterson
A pleasure boat company is transformed when the proprietor, Noah, is chosen by the "One True God" to put "sunny" faith back in the world and women back in the kitchen. The author has written "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit" (winner of the 1985 Whitbread award), and "Sexing the Cherry".
Christmas Days
Jeanette Winterson
The perfect winter a beautifully illustrated book of Christmas stories and recipes from the Booker prize longlisted author of Frankissstein'Packed with charm and beautifully illustrated, it's a book that will solve your gift dilemmas and let you escape the less salubrious aspects of Christmas for a literary wonderland' StylistEverybody loves a Christmas story. The tradition of the Twelve Days of Christmas is a tradition of celebration, sharing and giving. And what better way to do that than with a story?Read these stories by the fire, in the snow, travelling home for the holidays. Give them to friends, wrap them up for someone you love, read them aloud, read them alone, read them together. Enjoy the season of peace and goodwill, mystery, and a little bit of magic.There are ghosts here and jovial spirits. Chances at love and tricks with time.There is frost and icicles, mistletoe and sledges. There's a cat and a dog and a solid silver frog. There's a Christmas cracker with a surprising gift inside.There's a haunted house and a SnowMama. There are Yuletides and holly wreaths. Three Kings. And a merry little Christmas time.And for the icing on the Christmas cake, there are twelve festive recipes from Yuletides past and present. Red cabbage, gravlax, turkey biryani, sherry trifle, Mrs Winterson's mince pies and more.
Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days
Jeanette Winterson
From the New York Times bestselling author of "Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?" comes an enchanting collection of stories for the holiday season.
For years Jeanette Winterson has loved writing a new story at Christmas time and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny and bold tales. For the Twelve Days of Christmas—a time of celebration, sharing, and giving—she offers these twelve plus one: a personal story of her own Christmas memories. These tales give the reader a portal into the spirit of the season, where time slows down and magic starts to happen. From trees with mysterious powers to a tinsel baby that talks, philosophical fairies to flying dogs, a haunted house and a disappearing train, Winterson's innovative stories encompass the childlike and spooky wonder of Christmas. Perfect for reading by the fire with loved ones, or while traveling home for the holidays. Enjoy the season of peace and goodwill, mystery, and a little bit of magic courtesy of one of our most fearless and accomplished writers.
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere
Jeanette Winterson
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a timely and inspiring call to arms by one of Britain’s most acclaimed and important writers. Whilst recognising how far women have come in the hundred years since getting the vote, Jeanette Winterson also insists that we must all do much more if we are to achieve true gender equality.Examining recent women’s rights movements, the worlds of politics, technology and social media and changes in the law, Winterson calls out all the ways in which women still face discrimination and disadvantage. Like the women who won the right to vote, we need to shout up, reach out, be courageous and finish the job.Also included in this volume is Emmeline Pankhurst’s landmark Suffragette speech, ‘Freedom or Death’, which she delivered in 1913.
De schemerpoort
Jeanette Winterson
Goede Vrijdag, 1612. Een groep van dertien vrouwen heeft zich verzameld voor een mysterieuze bijeenkomst wanneer ze worden gestoord door een rechter, Roger Nowell. Hij vraagt zich af of er sprake is van een samenscholing van heksen. Tot de groep behoort de rijke Alice Nutter, die twee van hekserij beschuldigde vrouwen verdedigt.
Ondertussen gonst het van de geruchten over de terugkeer van een priester die naar Frankrijk was gevlucht voor de protestantse koning James I. Een bekende uit het verleden van Alice Nutter. Zal ze hem onderdak geven? En hoe snel zullen ze hem pakken? En haar?
Schemerpoort is een ijzingwekkende roman over de strijd tussen goed en kwaad. Winterson voegt hiermee een nieuwe dimensie toe aan haar indrukwekkende oeuvre.
Det finns annan frukt än apelsiner
Jeanette Winterson
I Jeanettes värld är apelsiner lösningen på allt. Näst efter att be förstås. Jeanettes fanatiskt frireligiösa moder uppfostrar med järngrepp sin adoptivdotter till att bli missionär. Tillsammans hänger de en filt över teven och lyssnar på missionsrapporter på radiogrammofonen varje söndag.
I den grå industristaden i norra England finner Jeanette värme och trygghet i den evangeliska gemenskapen. Tills hon en dag förälskar sig i en kvinna. Den annars så älskvärda församlingen och familjen vänder henne ryggen. Utsparkad från hemmet tvingas hon att försörja sig som glassbilschaufför och som sminkös på en begravningsbyrå. Men det som kunde ha slutat i bitterhet vänds av Jeanette till något livsbejakande.
Die Last der Welt: Der Mythos von Atlas und Herkules
Jeanette Winterson
The story of Atlas and HeraclesAtlas knows how it feels to carry the weight of the world; but why, he asks himself, does it have to be carried at all? In Weight — visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to the questions we ask ourselves every day — Winterson’s skill in turning the familiar on its head to show us a different truth is put to stunning effect.When I was asked to choose a myth to write about, I realized I had chosen already. The story of Atlas holding up the world was in my mind before the telephone call had ended. If the call had not come, perhaps I would never have written the story, but when the call did come, that story was waiting to be written. Rewritten. The recurring language motif of Weight is “I want to tell the story again.”My work is full of Cover Versions. I like to take stories we think we know and record them differently. In the retelling comes a new emphasis or bias, and the new arrangement of the key elements demands that fresh material be injected into the existing text.Weight moves far away from the simple story of Atlas’s punishment and his temporary relief when Hercules takes the world off his shoulders. I wanted to explore loneliness, isolation, responsibility, burden, and freedom too, because my version has a very particular end not found elsewhere.—from Jeanette Winterson’s Foreword to WeightFrom the Hardcover edition.
Escrito en el cuerpo
Jeanette Winterson
No sabemos si quien habla es la voz de un hombre o una mujer; solo queda claro que es la voz de alguien que ha conocido de cerca el placer, el deseo, esa deliciosa tormenta que nos trae el amor, y ahora cuenta los pasos de su pérdida.
Louise apareció un buen día como de la nada, y en seguida el tono lunar de su piel, el pelo igual que las ramas de un árbol y su manera de morder la fruta la convirtieron en ese ser único con quien queremos vivir y morir. Pero Louise llevaba un anillo en el dedo, y por su casa andaba Elgin, el hombre que era su marido desde hacía diez años, un tiempo marcado por la rutina.
Lejos de las costumbres aprendidas, llegaron las tardes y las noches en que los cuerpos de los dos amantes se iban descubriendo y escribiendo una historia que piel y mente comprendían muy bien. Luego un chantaje los alejó, y ahora ¿quién sabe? Porque el corazón nunca se da del todo; solo se presta de vez en cuando.
Frankissstein
Jeanette Winterson
Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and commercial success as "one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time" (Elle). Her new novel, Frankissstein, is an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love.
Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead... but waiting to return to life.
What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? In fiercely intelligent prose, Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realize. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.
Frankissstein: A Love Story
Jeanette Winterson
In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI.
Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere.
Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead… but waiting to return to life.
But the scene is set in 1816, when nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley writes a story about creating a non-biological life-form. ‘Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'
What will happen when homo sapiens is no longer the smartest being on the planet? Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realise. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, Frankissstein is a love story about life itself.
Fran-kiss-stein: Bir Aşk Hikayesi
Jeanette Winterson
Özün tözün nedir senin, hangi maddeden yapılmışsın ki milyonlarca garip gölge eğiliyor önünde?
Winterson, gotik edebiyat klasiği Frankenstein'dan esinlenerek yazılmış, içinde yaşadığımız bedenler ve arzuladığımız bedenler hakkındaki cüretkâr romanıyla karşınızda!
İki farklı zamandan iki farklı öykü anlatan bu eserin açılışını on dokuz yaşındaki Mary Shelley yapıyor. 1816 yılında yakın arkadaşlarıyla birlikte kaldıkları ıssız bir kulübeden Frankenstein öyküsünün tohumlarıyla ayrılışını kendi ağzından dinliyoruz.
İkinci öyküde ise Britanya, Avrupa Birliği’nden çıkış kararıyla çalkalanırken genç transseksüel doktor Ry, ünlü yapay zekâ uzmanı Victor Stein’a âşık olur. Ancak ikisi de bu tutkulu birlikteliğin bir yeraltı laboratuvarında nihayete ereceğini aklına getirmemiştir...
Evliliği kısa süre önce dağılan Ron Lord ise yeniden annesiyle birlikte yaşamaya başlamış, yalnız erkekler için geliştirdiği yeni nesil seks robotlarından bir servet kazanmaya hazırlanmaktadır. Ne var ki, teknoloji fuarında danışmanlık yapan dindar Claire’le tanışıp ona âşık olduğunda işi konusunda birkaç küçük yenilik yapması gerekecektir.
Peki, bu iki öyküyü yan yana getiren nedir? Cevap, sayfaları arasında kolaylıkla kaybolup gideceğiniz, kahkahalarla gözyaşını harman edeceğiniz bu başyapıtta gizli.
Frankissstein: Una historia de amor
Jeanette Winterson
¿Cómo será el futuro que las mujeres no están decidiendo?
«Un viaje en el tiempo divertidísimo y agudo con Frankenstein: alter ego actuales sumergidos en el mundo de la inteligencia artificial, la criogenia y los robots sexuales.»
Margaret Atwood
En una Inglaterra post-Brexit, el joven médico transgénero Ry Shelley conoce al profesor Victor Stein, que lidera el debate público sobre inteligencia artificial, y traba con él una peculiar relación. Mientras tanto, Ron Lord, recién divorciado e instalado con su madre, se dispone a hacerse de oro lanzando una nueva generación
de muñecas sexuales. Al otro lado del Atlántico, en Phoenix, una instalación de criogenia alberga docenas de cadáveres de hombres y mujeres que aguardan a que se les devuelva a la vida.
El tiempo de la especie humana se acaba. ¿Qué ocurrirá cuando el Homo sapiens no ocupe ya la cima de la cadena evolutiva? ¿Y qué sucederá con las mujeres, que no están participando en el diseño y la programación del futuro? Jeanette Winterson aborda estas preguntas a través de los avatares de unos personajes inolvidables, entre los que destaca una jovencísima Mary Shelley que escribe su profético Frankenstein junto al lago Lemán. «Lírica, deliciosamente obscena y absurda» (según New Scientist), «inteligente, imaginativa y muy divertida» (según The Times), esta es una novela de amor. Una novela de sexo en la que incluso una robot descubre el feminismo radical. Una refl exión sobre qué es y qué no es el ser humano.
«Un viaje en el tiempo divertidísimo y agudo con Frankenstein: alter ego actuales sumergidos en el mundo de la inteligencia artificial, la criogenia y los robots sexuales. (Advertencia: el Byron moderno no sale bien parado.)»
Margaret Atwood
Günışığı Kapısı
Jeanette Winterson
Aşk Ölüm Kadar Güçlüdür
Gün, Kral I. James'in iktidar günüdür. Tarih 1612... Yer İngiltere, Lancashire.. Kralın saplantısı, krallığını ne pahasına olursa olsun iki kötülükten kurtarmaktır: büyücülük ve Katolik inancı. Ve kendinden olmayan herkese karşı bir cadı avı başlatmıştır. İşte bu kaos ortamında güzelliğiyle göz kamaştıran varlıklı Alice Nutter ile inançları yüzünden türlü işkenceye maruz kalan sevgilisi Christopher Southworth her şeyi geride bırakıp kaçmaya hazırlanırlar. Ama burası Lancashire'dır. Burası Pendle'dır. Burası cadılar diyarıdır. Burada siyaset ve din iç içedir. Bu yüzden de Alice ile Christopher'ı karanlık günler beklemektedir. İngiltere'deki ünlü cadı yargılama davalarından en korkuncu üzerine inşa edilen Günışığı Kapısı sihir, batıl inançlar ve vahşi cinayetler üçgeninde okura yoksulluk, cinsiyet ve adalete dair bambaşka bir dünyanın kapılarını aralıyor.
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Gut Symmetries
Jeanette Winterson
Hailed in the Washington Post as "one of our most important writers in English," Jeanette Winterson has firmly established her reputation as an extraordinarily daring and original novelist. In Gut Symmetries, lives and universes run parallel in a complex contemporary love story set in New York and Liverpool and aboard the QE2.
Hansel and Greta: A Fairy Tale Revolution
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson retells 'Hansel and Gretel'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories.
'Deep in the wood'
Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction.
GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the forest. In fact, she thinks they're horrible little vegetarians.
GreedyGuts doesn't give two hoots about nature. She favours luxury and living it up: eating, shopping and partying hard. And so she hatches a plan to get rid of the meddling, do-gooder kids...deep in the wood.
Il cancello del crepuscolo
Jeanette Winterson
1605, Londra: è appena fallita la Congiura delle Polveri contro il re protestante Giacomo I e ogni cospiratore cattolico si è dato alla fuga, cercando di scappare il più lontano possibile dalla lunga mano della giustizia inglese. 1612, Venerdì Santo: nel profondo dei boschi di Pendle Forest, a pochi passi da una fonte battesimale, immerso nella nebbia fitta, un misterioso raduno di tredici persone è improvvisamente interrotto dall'arrivo del magistrato Roger Nowell. Si tratta per caso di un Sabbat di streghe? Due donne, dalla fama di maghe, sono già state rinchiuse nel castello di Lancaster e attendono il processo. Per le altre sospettate garantisce la bella e ricca Alice Nutter. Ma cosa ci fa proprio lei in quel gruppo di tredici persone che si è raccolto a Pendle Forest? Avvolta dal mistero e da una bellezza eternamente giovane, Alice è ben insediata nella buona società del Lancashire e protetta dalla sua fortuna. Ma a gettare un'ombra su di lei sono le voci insistenti di una sua torbida relazione con un'altra donna dell'alta nobiltà. Nel frattempo è tornato in Inghilterra un prete gesuita, congiurato delle Polveri, e si mormora sia un pretendente al titolo di Lancashire. Chi gli darà rifugio mentre dispiega i suoi piani? Non rimarrà certo a guardare il sovrano Giacomo I, animato da un'unica ossessione: sbarazzarsi di due diavoli gemelli, la stregoneria e il cattolicesimo, a qualunque costo...
Il custode del faro
Jeanette Winterson
Rimasta orfana, la piccola Silver viene adottata da Pew, un gentile e misterioso personaggio che vive nel faro di Cape Wrath. Nell'occuparsi teneramente di lei, Pew le racconta antiche storie incentrate sul desiderio, sullo sradicamento, sui legami e sulle assenze che segnano la nostra vita. Le racconta in particolare la storia di Babel Dark, un reverendo locale dell'Ottocento che ha vissuto due vite, una pubblica avvolta nell'oscurità e una privata immersa nella luce. Le storie di Pew si aprono sotto gli occhi di Silver come una mappa da seguire per penetrare nella propria oscurità. Piccola Ulisse dei nostri giorni, Silver comincia così un viaggio dentro le storie che ci raccontiamo, storie d'amore e privazione, di passione e desiderio.
Il mondo e altri luoghi: Racconti (Italian Edition)
Jeanette Winterson
C'è un mondo in cui è vietato dormire e un'isola piena di diamanti dove la ricchezza è possedere gioielli di carbone... una serie di brevi apologhi e folgoranti allegorie nei quali la più dotata narratrice inglese contemporanea, ci mostra il suo lato più fantasioso, lirico ed emotivo accostandosi ai grandi maestri della narrativa breve, da Angela Carter a Italo Calvino.
Il sesso delle ciliegie
Jeanette Winterson
Al tempo di re Carlo II, in una Londra assediata dalla peste, Jordan decide di mettersi in viaggio per conoscere il mondo. Scoprirà presto che l'unico limite all'avventura umana risiede nella forza dell'immaginazione. Un libro affascinante che mescola il gusto orientale per la fiaba e la tradizione filosofica occidentale. Un romanzo che conferma la Winterson come autrice di libri di culto.
L'arte dissente. Scritti sull'estasi e la sfrontatezza
Jeanette Winterson
In questi dieci saggi provocatori Jeanette Winterson rivela il suo personale e imprevedibile talento come critica d'arte e di letteratura. Le sue riflessioni sugli argomenti più eterogenei ci presentano una nuova prospettiva sul mondo e sulla creatività: la Winterson offre infatti una risposta all'eterno interrogativo su cosa sia l'arte e libera i capolavori di ogni genere dai preconcetti, per restituirceli con tutta la loro forza nel colpire, stupire, emozionare, trasformare. Tutta la loro forza nel generare l'estasi con la loro invereconda sfrontatezza.
Les Oranges ne sont pas les seuls fruits
Jeanette Winterson
« Comme la plupart des gens, j’ai longtemps vécu avec ma mère et mon père. Mon père aimait regarder les combats de catch, ma mère, elle, aimait catcher. » Jeanette n’a pas le droit : d’aller à l’école, de lire, d’avoir des amis et de penser à autre chose qu’à Dieu. Non, Jeanette n’a pas le droit, sa mère ne veut pas. Heureusement il y a Elsie, vieille femme fantasque et pleine de fantaisie, avec qui elle construit des tunnels pour les souris. Et puis les contes et les fables que Jeanette se raconte à mi-voix. Un jour surgit Melanie, l’amie, la confidente, si drôle, si belle, si intelligente. L’amour peut-il avoir ce visage-là ?
Lighthousekeeping
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman. Dark lived two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love. For Silver, Dark's life becomes a map through her own darkness, into her own story, and, finally, into love.
One of the most original and extraordinary writers of her generation, Jeanette Winterson has created a modern fable about the transformative power of storytelling.
Love
Jeanette Winterson
Love is a map, not a destination. That's why there is no such thing as "they all lived happily ever after"
How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson’s writing. Here are selections from her books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for the mythical creature we call Love.
Selected from the books of Jeanette Winterson
VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.
A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human
Midsummer Nights
Jeanette Winterson
In 2009, the Glyndebourne Festival of Opera reaches its 75th year. In commemoration of this event, Jeanette Winterson has brought together some of the best loved and most critically acclaimed authors writing today to pen stories inspired by opera. A foreword from Ralph Fiennes and an introduction by Jeanette Winterson are followed Alexander McCall Smith on Cosi Fan Tutte; Ali Smith on Fidelio; Andrew Motion on Peter Grimes; Andrew O'Hagan on Eugene Onegin; Ann Enright on Rusalka;; Colm Toibin on Pearl Fishers; Jackie Kay on The Makropulos Case; Joanna Trollope on L'Elisir d'Amore; John Mortimer on Cosi Fan Tutte; Julie Myerson on The Crowning of Poppaea; Kate Atkinson on La Traviata; Kate Mosse on Pelleas et Melisande; Lynne Truss on The Turn of the Screw; Marina Warner on Dido and Aeneas; Posy Simmonds double page of 'Glyndebourne Midsummer Night'; Ruth Rendell on Theodora; Sebastian Barry on Natoma; Toby Litt on Don Giovanni.
Night Side of the River
Jeanette Winterson
A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New York Times ), The Night Side of the River is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky. In this delightfully chilling collection, the iconic Jeanette Winterson turns her fearless gaze to the realm of ghosts, interspersing her own encounters with the supernatural alongside hair-raising fictions. Lifting the veil between the living and the dead, Winterson spirits us away to a haunted estate that ensnares a nomadic young couple in its own dark past, a staged immersive ghost tour gone awry, a West Village séance that threatens the bounds between AI and reality, and a vacation home in the metaverse where a widow visits an improved version of her deceased husband. Gloriously gothic and unnervingly contemporary, Winterson examines grief, revenge, and the myriad ways in which technology can disrupt the boundary between life and death.
Noel Günleri
Jeanette Winterson
Evimde ağaç var. Işıldayan bir ağaç. Her kim getirdiyse süs ışıklarından anlıyormuş ama mesele bu değil. Tavuğu, pirinci ve kaju fıstıklarını yedim, kayısıları bıraktım. Ağacın ışıklarını kapatabilirdim. Onun yerine oturup seyrettim. Bayan Noblovsky’nin kâhin votkasından dört kadeh yuvarlayınca ağacı neredeyse sevmeye başladım. Kendimi önümüzdeki Noel’de buna benzer bir şey satın alırken hayal edebiliyordum.
İngiliz edebiyatının yaşayan en önemli ve sıra dışı isimlerinden olan Jeanette Winterson, bu kez Noel sezonu için yazdığı öykülerle karşımızda. Yılın bu döneminde damakları şenlendirecek on iki tarifini de paylaşırken, anlattığı on iki Noel öyküsündeyse o yaratıcı ve cüretkâr edebiyatını konuşturuyor. Altın burunlu bir eşekten kardan bir anneye, neşeli ruhlardan perili bir eve dek, her biri diğerinden şaşırtıcı bu masalları okurken zamanın yavaşladığını hissedecek ve “Wintersonvari”, büyüleyici bir Noel haftasının içine çekileceksiniz.
Non ci sono solo le arance
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette, orfano sensibile, intelligente e ribelle, viene adottato da una famiglia di evangelisti e cupo nord industrializzato della Gran Bretagna. La sua infanzia diventa un mix surreale di prediche, catechismo, rantolo di tamburello in chiesa orchestra e l'adattamento tardi per i rigori del sistema educativo. Tuttavia, come l'adolescenza Jeanette si avvicina, una carriera missionario di iniziare a preparare i genitori a perdere la loro aura, i giovani scoprono la loro sessualità a tutti gli ortodossi e il silenzio la famiglia va in pezzi. Jeanette dovrà scegliere tra la verità e la verità della Bibbia anima lei e coraggiosa decisione che sarà l'inizio di un percorso tortuoso tra punti di riferimento originali e insolite del destino
Normal Olmak Varken Neden Mutlu Olasın?
Jeanette Winterson
Ben küçükken –masaların altına saklanabilecek, çekmecelere sığabilecek boyuttayken– bir çekmecenin içine tırmanır, çekmecenin gemi, halının da deniz olduğuna inanırdım.
Pusulamı bir şişede buldum. Bir doğum belgesiydi bu. Üzerinde gerçek ebeveynlerimin adları vardı.
Bundan hiç kimseye söz etmedim.
Gerçek annemle babamı bulmaya hiç yeltenmedim; bir çift ebeveyn talihsizlikse, iki çifti tam bir yıkım olurdu.
Jeanette Winterson, Tek Meyve Portakal Değildir adlı eserinin ardına gizlenmiş sarsıcı, kalp kıran gerçekleri tek tek anlatıyor bu kitapta.
O, evlat edinilmiş bir çocuktu. Çatısı altına girdiği evi daima yadırgadığı gibi “Bayan Winterson” adıyla çağırdığı kadının annelik güdülerine de şüpheyle yaklaştı. Öyle ki, bir okul etkinliğinde onu yanında görüp “Bu annen mi?” diyenlere “Genellikle...” cevabını verebiliyordu ancak. Hayatın sırrını Kutsal Kitap’ın sayfaları arasında arayan kadına mutlu olmak istediğini söylediğindeyse, “Normal olmak varken niye mutlu olasın ki?” yanıtını almıştı.
Bayan Winterson, Jeanette’ın olduğu ve olmak istediği her şeyin zıddıydı. Ancak Jeanette yine de onu sevdi ve hep çocuk kaldı. Bu durumu en iyi izah eden de yine onun sözleri: “Anne bizim ilk gönül maceramızdır. Onun kolları. Onun gözleri. Göğsü. Bedeni. Ve daha sonra ondan nefret edersek, bu öfkeyi kendimizle birlikte diğer sevgililerimize taşırız. Ve eğer onu kaybedersek, bir daha nerede buluruz? Dünyada hiç ilgilenilmemiş, bu yüzden de bir türlü büyüyememiş bu kadar çok çocuk olduğu için üzgünüm. Yaşlanıyorlar ama büyümüyorlar. Bunun için sevgi gerek. Şanslıysan, sevgiyi daha sonra bulursun. Şanslıysan, sevginin suratına yumruğu yapıştırmazsın.”
O paranteză în timp
Jeanette Winterson
Lansatã în 2015 la inițiativa editurii britanice Hogarth și preluatã deja în 28 de țãri, aceastã serie propune revizitarea capodoperelor shakespeariene de cãtre scriitori de faimã internaționalã, care le reimagineazã pentru secolul XXI.
O parantezã în timp este o Poveste de iarnã contemporanã, scrisã cu verva care o caracterizeazã pe Jeanette Winterson. În locul lui Leontes, regele Siciliei, cititorul îl va cunoaște pe Leo, magnatul londonez cãsãtorit cu MiMi, o cântãreațã de origine francezã. Când Xeno, prietenul acestuia din copilãrie, se întoarce pe neașteptate, Leo crede cã existã o legãturã amoroasã între el și MiMi, suspiciune care merge pânã la obsesie și autodistrugere. Perdita, fiica nerecunoscutã de Leo, în ciuda tuturor evidențelor, se va naște sub semnul acestei închipuite trãdãri, iar drumul vieții ei va deschide o parantezã în timp, una pe care numai dragostea pãrinteascã o va mai putea închide în chip fericit.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
Alternate cover edition for 9780802135162
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.
At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender,
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession.
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (Arrow Books) (Paperback) - Common
Jeanette Winterson
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender,Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession.
Passion Fruit: Romantic Fiction With a Twist
Jeanette Winterson
Thirteen stories offer fresh looks at the relationship between men and women by using dream imagery and surrealism
Perché essere felice quando puoi essere normale?
Jeanette Winterson
Nell'autunno del 1975 la sedicenne Jeanette Winterson deve prendere una decisione: rimanere al 200 di Water Street assieme ai genitori adottivi o continuare a vedere la ragazza di cui è innamorata e vivere in una Mini presa in prestito. Sceglie la seconda strada, perché tutto quello che vuole è essere felice. Tenta di spiegarlo alla madre, che però le chiede: "Perché essere felice quando puoi essere normale?". Da questa frase inizia il racconto intimo e personale di un'infanzia trascorsa fra un padre indifferente e una madre che passa le notti sveglia ad ascoltare il Vangelo alla radio, impastando torte e lavorando a maglia. La sua è fin dall'inizio la storia di una lotta per sopravvivere alle prepotenze di questa madre, che trova normale lasciare la figlia fuori dalla porta tutta la notte e sottoporla a esorcismi liberatori. Una lotta per affermare se stessa, la propria omosessualità e l'amore per i libri. Perché questa è anche la storia di un amore infinito per la letteratura, nato per proteggersi e per cercare quell'affetto stabile che in casa sembra mancare irrimediabilmente, un amore che resiste anche quando la madre scopre i libri che Jeanette nasconde e li dà alle fiamme. Con generosità e onestà intellettuale, Jeanette Winterson scava nei propri pensieri e sentimenti di bambina, adolescente e donna, ripercorrendo nel contempo la sua dolorosa ricerca della famiglia naturale. Ne esce un racconto intenso, a tratti tragico ma anche allegro, come sa essere la sua scrittura.
¿Por qué ser feliz cuando puedes ser normal?
Jeanette Winterson
Recent cover edition here
En 1985, Winterson publicó Fruta prohibida, su primera novela, un relato apenas disimulado sobre su infancia y adolescencia como hija adoptada de un matrimonio muy religioso. Cuenta cómo se enamoró de una mujer y rompió con todos los dogmas de su formación. Cuando finalmente decidió abandonar su casa a los dieciséis años, su madre le preguntó que para qué quería ser feliz cuando podía ser normal. La novela consagró a Winterson como una de las jóvenes voces más brillantes de la literatura británica, y se convirtió en un best seller internacional. Ahora, casi treinta años después, Winterson regresa al problema de su infancia, ya sin las máscaras de la ficción, e indaga en todo lo que significó la vida de esa niña aterrorizada por una madre atroz que guardaba un revólver en la mesilla de noche.
Scris pe trup
Jeanette Winterson
Un roman frumos ca o scrisoare de dragoste, in care protagonistii se cauta, se gasesc intr-o noapte ploioasa, se iubesc nebuneste si in cele din urma ratacesc iremediabil drumul unul spre celalalt. Pe ea o cheamã Louise. Are par prerafaelit si pielea alba ca laptele. Dar persoana pe care o iubeste si care-i asterne pe hartie povestea n-are nici nume, nici chip, nici sex. In fond dragostea nu cunoaste astfel de ingradiri. E, asa cum descopera protagonistii, un drog care se consuma febril, cu disperare, si care lasa urme vizibile si invizibile scrise pe trup.
Scritto sul corpo
Jeanette Winterson
Alla base di Scritto sul corpo c'è una specie di gioco che Jeanette Winterson propone ai lettori, tanto più sorprendente e coinvolgente in quanto applicato a un romanzo d'amore che possiede il ritmo febbrile e coinvolgente di ogni vera passione: mentre di tutti gli altri personaggi sappiamo se si tratta di un uomo o di una donna, l'autrice non ci lascia mai capire a quale sesso appartenga l'io narrante, la voce e il punto di vista attraverso i quali vengono filtrate tutte le vicende e tutte le figure della storia. Di questa passione d'amore bruciante, poetica, profondamente incisa nei sensi e nella mente conosciamo l'oggetto - Louise, una bellissima donna sposata dai capelli color rosso Tiziano - ma non il soggetto, se non tramite rari indizi sparsi qua e là, troppo incerti per ricavarne una conferma definitiva. Attraverso una scrittura appassionata, ironica, scandita con ritmi inusuali, il lettore si troverà così a esplorare emozioni e sentimenti con un'ottica e con una partecipazione diverse, in un lungo e lento viaggio nelle profondità e negli enigmi dell'erotismo e del desiderio.
Sexing the Cherry
Jeanette Winterson
In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and grows up to travel the world like Gulliver, though he finds that the world’s most curious oddities come from his own mind. Winterson leads the reader from discussions on the nature of time to Jordan’s fascination with journeys concealed within other journeys, all with a dizzying speed that shoots the reader from epiphany to shimmering epiphany.
Simmetrie amorose
Jeanette Winterson
Su un transatlantico in viaggio per New York il lettore incontra tre strani personaggi: Alice una studiosa di fisica, Jove suo eminente collega e Stella, una poetessa. Le loro voci si intersecano mostrando a poco a poco un enigmatico intreccio amoroso che diviene paradigma della fragilità dell'amore.
Tanglewreck
Jeanette Winterson
Something frightening is happening to time. Time tornadoes are ripping people from the present, never to return them, while a woolly mammoth inexplicably appears on banks of the River Thames. Eleven-year-old Silver and her guardian live in a house called Tanglewreck, which is somehow at the center of these mysterious time warps. A strange heirloom called the Timekeeper is hidden somewhere in the house, and Silver must find it and protect it . . . because whoever gets hold of the Timekeeper will have the power to control time-and life as we know it-forever.
Reviews
"The sheer exhilaration of the adventure and the many fascinating historical and scientific allusions will keep readers engrossed through to the satisfying conclusion." -Publishers Weekly "An appealing read for fantasy and science- fiction fans alike...Well-developed main characters add liveliness and suspense to the story, while secondary characters (a pair of inept thugs, the original Schrödinger's cat) add touches of humor to a basically sober story. The climax is chaotic and exciting; the resolution is realistic, bittersweet." -Kirkus Reviews "Winterson masterfully weaves together an imaginative array of settings and characters to bring the story to its exhilarating fulfillment. Silver's varied relationships add even more depth, encapsulating family, friendship, deceit, and abuse... "[T]his time-bending sci-fi adventure will be a fine addition to young adult collections." -School Library Journal "Winterson seamlessly combines rousing adventure with time warps, quantum physics, and a few wonderfully hapless flunkies. Her clever science will draw fans of Madeline L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, and her dastardly villains and resourceful youngsters will remind readers of the Lemony Snicket's books about the hapless Baudelaires." --Booklist "Silver is a plucky hero in the mold of Neil Gaiman's Coraline and Philip Pullman's Lyra, a creature of action not introspection.
Taş Tanrılar
Jeanette Winterson
“Son derece canlı ve çarpıcı bir anlatı inşa eden Taş Tanrılar, her daim çaresiz ve tedbirsiz insanoğluna adanmış
keskin bir ağıt...” –Ursula K. Le Guin
Bugün hayatta bir kere karşımıza çıkabilecek bir fırsata tanıklık etmek için buradayız. Pek çok hayatta da karşımıza çıkabilecek bir fırsattır bu. Yaşam başladığından beri karşımıza çıkan en iyi fırsat. Gezegenlerimiz tükeniyor ve yeni bir gezegen bulduk. Göğü süsleyen onca parlak kaya arasında, yuva diyebileceğimiz gezegeni bulana dek araştırma yaptık. Yolumuza devam ediyoruz, o kadar. Bunu herkesin bir noktada, er ya da geç yapması gerekir; doğal bir şey bu.
Orbus’un uzak bir gelecekte yaşayan sakinleri için insan hayatı, bugün bildiğimiz tanımlamadan epeyce uzaktır. Örneğin, bu insanlar için yaşlanmak, DNA’da görülen bir hatadan ibarettir ve kolaylıkla onarılabilir.
Ölmekte olan dünyaya da bu gözle bakılır; ekolojik çöküşle birlikte gelen kıyamet “onarılabilir bir hata”dır sadece... Hâl böyleyken kollar sıvanır ve üzerinde yaşadığımıza benzer bir gezegen daha bulunması için gereken her şey yapılır. İnsanlığın ufuktan silinen hayallerini, umutlarını, adalet ve etik gibi kavramların uçup gidişini, hatta “insanlık” kavramının kökten değişimini görmezden gelerek, varılmak istenen nihai hedef budur: Yeni bir şans.
Winterson’ın bu sıradışı kurguyu ilmek ilmek örerken aklında tek bir soru olduğu ortada: “Peki ama yeni bir şansı hak ediyor muyuz?” Yazarın bu kitapta açığa çıkacak yanıtı, gerçeklerle yüzleşmeye hazır olanların kalbini kırmayacaktır...
Tek Meyve Portakal Değildir
Jeanette Winterson
Evlatlık alınıp misyoner olarak yetiştirilen bir kız çocuğu, aykırı eğilimleri yüzünden beklentileri suya düşürecektir. Jeanette on altı yaşına geldiğinde, sevdiği kız uğruna Kilise'yi, evini ve ailesini terk etmeye karar verir. Winterson otobiyografinin ötesine geçerek fantastik bir kurguyu deneysel bir yazım tarzıyla birleştiriyor ve ününün hakkını veren bir anlatı ortaya çıkarıyor. Mizahi tarzı ve keskin zekasıyla kalıplaşmış anlayışları ve yerleşik ilişkileri sorgulayan Winterson, Tek Meyve Portakal Değildir'de dönüp geçmişine bakarken okuru da "kendini icat etmeye" çağırıyor.
The Battle of the Sun
Jeanette Winterson
Imagine a city made of gold, and each thing in it made of gold, and every person as golden as a precious statue. . . .A magus dreams of turning London into a city of gold, but he cannot do it alone and so he kidnaps a child called Jack, who he is sure will help him realise his ambition. But Jack is not a willing assistant and instead he embarks on a magical adventure to save the city, release a dragon and set free seven other boys kidnapped in the past.An enchanting novel filled with magic and mystery.
The Daylight Gate
Jeanette Winterson
Good Friday, 1612. Pendle Hill, Lancashire.
A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by local magistrate, Roger Nowell. Is this a witches' Sabbat?
Two notorious Lancashire witches are already in Lancaster Castle waiting trial. Why is the beautiful and wealthy Alice Nutter defending them? And why is she among the group of thirteen on Pendle Hill?
Elsewhere, a starved, abused child lurks. And a Jesuit priest and former Gunpowder plotter, recently returned from France, is widely rumoured to be heading for Lancashire. But who will offer him sanctuary? And how quickly can he be caught?
This is the reign of James I, a Protestant King with an obsession: to rid his realm of twin evils, witchcraft and Catholicism, at any price...
The Gap of Time
Jeanette Winterson
The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s “late plays.” It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of extraordinary events, father and daughter, and eventually mother too, are reunited.
In The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson’s cover version of The Winter’s Tale, we move from London, a city reeling after the 2008 financial crisis, to a storm-ravaged American city called New Bohemia. Her story is one of childhood friendship, money, status, technology and the elliptical nature of time. Written with energy and wit, this is a story of the consuming power of jealousy on the one hand, and redemption and the enduring love of a lost child on the other.
The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Re-told (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Jeanette Winterson
‘I saw the strangest sight tonight.’
New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up – light as a star – and decides to take her home.
London. England. After the financial crash. Leo Kaiser knows how to make money but he doesn’t know how to manage the jealousy he feels towards his best friend and his wife. Is the newborn baby even his?
New Bohemia. 17 years later. A boy and a girl are falling in love but there’s a lot they don’t know about who they are and where they come from.
Jeanette Winterson’s cover version of The Winter’s Tale vibrates with echoes of the original but tells a contemporary story where Time itself is a player in a game of high stakes that will either end in tragedy or forgiveness. It shows us that however far we have been separated, whatever is lost shall be found.
The Passion
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin; and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. In Venice’s compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meet their singular destiny.
In her unique and mesmerizing voice, Winterson blends reality with fantasy, dream, and imagination to weave a hypnotic tale with stunning effects.
The PowerBook
Jeanette Winterson
To avoid discovery I stay on the run. To discover things for myself, I stay on the run. "The PowerBook" is twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple. An e-writer called Ali or Alix will write to order anything you like, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price. Ali discovers that she too will have to pay it. Death can take the body but not the heart. Set in London, Paris, Capri and Cyberspace, this is a book that reinvents itself as it travels. Using cover-versions, fairy tales, contemporary myths and popular culture, "The PowerBook" works at the intersection between the real and the imagined. Its territory is you.
The.PowerBook
Jeanette Winterson
The.PowerBook The Powerbook
The Stone Gods
Jeanette Winterson
On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story.
The World and Other Places
Jeanette Winterson
In this, her first collection of short stories, Winterson reveals all the facets of her extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, she creates physical and psychological worlds that are at once familiar and yet shockingly strange.
The World and Other Places: Stories
Jeanette Winterson
Her first short story collection exhibits the multitude of talents that have made English novelist Jeanette Winterson not just admired but beloved by her many fans. There are the surprising, fresh little phrases minted expressly to convey the delicate realities of the made-up world. There's the humor, fierce and sly but always kind. There's the imagination that changes gender and historical epoch at whim, and does so convincingly; and the characters themselves, a sundry bunch of men and women not necessarily successful or commendable but always, somehow, likable. Best of all, by their very diversity, these stories reveal glimpses of the smart and enigmatic woman behind the work.
In "Atlantic Crossing," Winterson becomes a middle-aged businessman of the mid-20th century, accidentally assigned to share his second-class cabin with a young black woman on a transatlantic crossing. In the realm of event, little happens, but in its depth of perception and what it tells of the nuances of regret, the story is as rich as a novel in another writer's hands. A few scant pages later, Winterson becomes a kind of lost female Homer, telling Orion's story from Artemis's point of view: "When she returned she saw this huge rag of a man eating her goat, raw.... His reputation hung about him like bad breath." In "The Poetics of Sex," she creates a lesbian love story that evokes her characters' personalities as explicitly as their erotic pleasures. "The 24-Hour Dog," the story of a woman writer returning a puppy she had thought to adopt, is remorseless as a psychological thriller in the squirmy depths it plumbs: "I had made every preparation, every calculation, except for those two essentials that could not be calculated: his heart and mine." Read The World and Other Places twice, once for instruction, once for joy. --Joyce Thompson
Tutku
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson deniz kıyılarından kanal kentlerine, karla kaplı dağlardan sıcak meydanlara uzanan bir masal anlatıyor: Sadakatin, aidiyetin, arayışın ve bulamayışın zorlu yollarından geçerek tutkuya dönüşen bir masal. Tutkunun yalnızca aşkta, aşkın ise yalnızca karşı cinste arandığı bir hikâyeyi reddederek çıplak gerçeği hayallerin büyülü dünyası üzerine kuruyor.
Savaşın yıkıcılığı, düş kırıklığının sarsıcılığı, kavuşamamanın burukluğu farklı coğrafyalardan gelerek yolları kesişen ve hangi yöne giderse gitsinler daima kendilerine çıkanların keskin anlatısında hayat buluyor.
Hayata karşı oynanan kumarda aldığımız riskleri incelikle süzüyor Winterson. Sonuçta "Neyi tehlikeye attığın neye değer verdiğini gösterir."
Vişnenin Cinsiyeti
Jeanette Winterson
Vişnenin Cinsiyeti, tarihsel romanı fabl ve söylenceyle karıştırıp zenginleştiren göz kamaştırıcı bir küçük roman. Anlatılan, II. Charles'ın krallığı sırasında vebadan kırılan Londra'da yaşayan Jordan ve annesi Köpekli Kadın'ın öyküsü. Jordan, dünyayı gezip görmek üzere yola çıkar ve 'zamanın tek ve bir' olduğunu ve her yolculuğun kendi içinde bir başkasını gizlediğini öğrenir - yolculukların sınırı düşgücünün sona erdiği yerdir ancak... Vişnenin Cinsiyeti, içindeki öyküler cıva taneleri gibi ayrışıp sonra yeniden birbirleriyle çarpışan, eğlenceli, yepyeni bir roman. Jeanette Winterson'un Türkçe'de yayımlanan ilk eseri.
Warum glücklich statt einfach nur normal?
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels have earned her widespread acclaim, establishing her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally best-selling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is now often required reading in contemporary fiction classes.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life’s work to find happiness. It's a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in a north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the universe as a cosmic dustbin. It is the story of how a painful past, which Winterson thought she had written over and repainted, rose to haunt her later in life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother. It's also a book about other people’s literature, one that shows how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life raft that supports us when we are sinking.
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging--for love, identity, home, and a mother.
Weight (Canons)
Jeanette Winterson
The story of Atlas and HeraclesAtlas knows how it feels to carry the weight of the world; but why, he asks himself, does it have to be carried at all? In Weight — visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to the questions we ask ourselves every day — Winterson’s skill in turning the familiar on its head to show us a different truth is put to stunning effect.When I was asked to choose a myth to write about, I realized I had chosen already. The story of Atlas holding up the world was in my mind before the telephone call had ended. If the call had not come, perhaps I would never have written the story, but when the call did come, that story was waiting to be written. Rewritten. The recurring language motif of Weight is “I want to tell the story again.”My work is full of Cover Versions. I like to take stories we think we know and record them differently. In the retelling comes a new emphasis or bias, and the new arrangement of the key elements demands that fresh material be injected into the existing text.Weight moves far away from the simple story of Atlas’s punishment and his temporary relief when Hercules takes the world off his shoulders. I wanted to explore loneliness, isolation, responsibility, burden, and freedom too, because my version has a very particular end not found elsewhere.—from Jeanette Winterson’s Foreword to WeightFrom the Hardcover edition.
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles
Jeanette Winterson
“When I was asked to choose a myth to write about, I realized I had chosen already. The story of Atlas holding up the world was in my mind before the telephone call had ended. If the call had not come, perhaps I would never have written the story, but when the call did come, that story was waiting to be written. Rewritten. The recurring language motif of Weight is ‘I want to tell the story again.’ My work is full of cover versions. I like to take stories we think we know and record them differently. In the retelling comes a new emphasis or bias, and the new arrangement of the key elements demands that fresh material be injected into the existing text. Weight moves far away from the simple story of Atlas’s punishment and his temporary relief when Heracles takes the world off his shoulders. I wanted to explore loneliness, isolation, responsibility, burden, and freedom, too, because my version has a very particular end not found elsewhere.” -- from Jeanette Winterson’s Foreword to Weight
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is now often required reading in contemporary fiction.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life's work to find happiness. It's a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the Universe as Cosmic Dustbin.
It is the story of how a painful past that Jeanette thought she'd written over and repainted rose to haunt her, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother.
Written on the Body
Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.
Zile de Crăciun: 12 povestiri și 12 sărbători pentru 12 zile
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson, una dintre cele mai inventive și mai îndrăznețe voci narative contemporane, ne propune în acest volum 12 povestiri și 12 rețete îmbietoare pentru cele 12 zile ale Crăciunului.
Pentru autoare, Crăciunul e un moment fericit, „celebrarea neprevăzutului“. De aceea îi place să-l întâmpine scriind o poveste. Cele 12 alese aici, de o imaginație debordantă, pline de prospețime și umor, ne oferă un portal către „spiritul Crăciunului“, unde timpul parcă stă în loc, iar magicul pune stăpânire pe lume. „Sunt povești cu stafii, intervenții miraculoase, întâlniri obișnuite ce se dovedesc departe de a fi obișnuite, mici minuni și saluturi adresate luminii renăscute.“ Crăciunul e o sărbătoare a intimității, în cadrul căreia orele petrecute alături de persoanele dragi sunt esențiale. Să gătim împreună, ne îndeamnă Jeanette Winterson, savurând cele 12 feluri festive ale căror rețete însoțesc povestirile. Dat fiind că fiecare rețetă tradițională sau nou-inventată pentru Crăciun devine ea însăși un dar și ne readuce în suflet bucuria și speranța că nu suntem și nu vom fi niciodată singuri.
Не только апельсины
Jeanette Winterson
Роман молодой писательницы, в котором она откровенно рассказала о своем детстве и трагической первой любви, вызвал жаркие дискуссии и стал одним из главных культурных событий восьмидесятых.
Детство и юность Дженет проходят в атмосфере бесконечных проповедей, религиозных праздников и душеспасительных бесед. Девочка с увлечением принимает участие в миссионерской деятельности общины, однако невольно отмечает, что ее "добродетельные" родители и соседи весьма своеобразно трактуют учение Христа. С каждым днем ей все труднее мириться с лицемерием и ханжеством, процветающими в ее окружении. Но однажды приходит любовь… и разрушает все, чем она жила до сих пор, -- семью, карьеру, веру в Бога и веру в людей. Но рушатся также и стены ее крошечного сообщества, за которыми открывается большой, живой настоящий мир…
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