New Releases by Jeanette Winterson

Winterson enfolds her seventh novel within the world of computers, and transforms the signal development of our time into a wholly human medium. The story is simple: an e-mail writer called Ali will compose anything you like, on order, provided you''re prepared to enter the story as yourself and risk 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, and Ali discovers that she, too, will have to pay it. The PowerBook reinvents itself as it travels from London to Paris, Capri, and Cyberspace, using fairy tales, contemporary myths, and popular culture to weave a story of failed but requited love.

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson''s delectable first novel, announced the arrival of ''a fresh voice with a mind behind it,'' as Muriel Spark has written. ''She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides''--and her reputation and accomplishment have grown with each of her five subsequent novels. Now, with her first collection--seventeen stories that span her entire career--Jeanette Winterson reveals all the facets of her extraordinary imagination. Whether transporting us to bizarre new geog-raphies--a world where sleep is illegal, an island of diamonds where the rich wear jewelry made of coal--or revealing so perfectly, so exactly, the joy and pain of owning a brand-new dog, she proves herself a master of the short form. For her readers, a celebration--and for everyone else, a wonderful introduction to this highly original and consistently daring writer, who has become ''one of our most brilliant, visionary storytellers'' (San Francisco Chronicle)

The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) must encompass desire alongside electromagnetism and gravity. One starry night on a boat in the mid-Atlantic, Alice, a brilliant English theoretical physicist, begins an affair with Jove, her remorselessly seductive American counterpart. But Jove is married. When Alice confronts his wife, Stella, she swiftly falls in love with her, with consequences that are by turns horrifying, comic, and arousing. Vaulting from Liverpool to New York, from alchemy to string theory, and from the spirit to the flesh, Gut Symmetries is a thrillingly original novel by England''s most flamboyantly gifted young writer. "Winterson is unmatched among contemporary writers in her ability to conjure up new-world wonder...A beautiful, stirring and brilliant story."--Times Literary Supplement "Dazzling for [its] intelligence and inventiveness...[Winterson] is possessed of a masterly command of the language and a truly pliant imagination."--Elle "One of our most brilliant, visionary storytellers."--San Francisco Chronicle

One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity. "A series of intense, artful musings that are exhilarating and visionary. . . . Unsettling yet strangely satisfying."--Newsday.

" Ma mère n''avait pas d''opinions nuancées. Il y avait ses amis et ses ennemis. Ses ennemis étaient : le Diable (sous toutes ses formes), les Voisins d''à côté, le sexe (sous toutes ses formes), les limaces. Ses amis étaient : Dieu, notre chienne, tante Madge, les romans de Charlotte Brontë, les granulés antilimaces, et moi, au début. " Les oranges ne sont pas les seuls fruits recrée sur le mode de la fable l''enfance de Jeanette, double fictionnel de l''auteur. À la maison, les livres sont interdits, le bonheur est suspect. Seul Dieu bénéficie d''un traitement de faveur. Ce premier roman nourri par les légendes arthuriennes ou la Bible célèbre la puissance de l''imaginaire. Tout semble vrai dans ce récit personnel mais tout est inventé, réécrit, passé au tamis de la poésie et de l''humour. Publié en 1985 en Angleterre, Les oranges ne sont pas les seuls fruits a connu un immense succès, devenant rapidement un classique de la littérature contemporaine et un symbole du mouvement féministe. Née en Angleterre en 1959, Jeanette Winterson est romancière et essayiste. Elle a publié notamment Écrit sur le corps, Le Sexe des cerises (Plon, 1993 et 1995) et Pourquoi être heureux quand on peut être normal ? (Éditions de l''Olivier, 2012). " Les livres de Jeanette Winterson, apatrides et sans visage, brillent des multiples reflets de la grande Albion : la majesté de Shakespeare, l''absolutisme de Lawrence, le calme de Woolf ou la farce de Chaucer. C''est une magicienne. " Ali Smith, The Scotsman

A New York Times bestseller: The “magnificent” memoir by one of the bravest and most original writers of our time—“A tour de force of literature and love” (Vogue). One of the New York Times’ “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years” Jeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. Her internationally best-selling debut, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, and has become a staple of required reading in contemporary fiction classes. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a “singular and electric” memoir about a life’s work to find happiness (The New York Times). It is 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, rose to haunt the author later in life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother. It is also a book about the power of literature, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, or 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 story of the search for belonging—for love, identity, home, and a mother.

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?".

Un libro de memorias destinado a convertirse en un clásico de la literatura contemporánea «La honestidad de Winterson es abrumadora. Y su prosa, magnética. Desmonta tópicos en cada párrafo.» Andreu Gomila, Time Out ¿Por qué ser feliz cuando puedes ser normal?, preguntó la señora Winterson a su hija Jeanette cuando ella, recién cumplidos los dieciséis años, le confesó haberse enamorado de otra chica. Extraña pregunta, pero poco más podía esperarse de una mujer que había adoptado a una niña para hacer de ella una aliada en su misión religiosa, y en cambio se las tuvo que ver con un ser extraño que pedía a gritos su porción de felicidad. Armada con dos juegos de dentadura postiza y una pistola escondida bajo los trapos de cocina, la señora Winterson hizo lo que pudo para disciplinar a Jeanette: en casa los libros estaban prohibidos, las amistades eran mal vistas, los besos y abrazos eran gestos extravagantes, y cualquier falta se castigaba con noches enteras al raso, pero de nada sirvió. Esa chica pelirroja que parecía hija del mismo diablo se rebeló, buscando el placer en la piel de otras mujeres y encontrando en la biblioteca del barrio novelas y poemas que la ayudaran a crecer. Eso y mucho más es lo que ofrecen estas páginas excepcionales, donde alegría y rabia andan de la mano: un libro de memorias destinado a convertirse en un clásico de la literatura contemporánea. «Necesitaba palabras porque todas las familias infelices sellan un pacto de silencio. Quienrompa ese silencio jamás será perdonado. Él o ella tendrá que aprender a perdonarse a sí mismo.» Jeanette Winterson La autora ha dicho: «He escrito muchas obras de ficción, pero ¿Por qué ser feliz cuando puedes ser normal?... ¿qué es en realidad? ¿Unas memorias? Tal vez. ¿Una autobiografía? Quizá. Para mí es un experimento con las vivencias. Un relato de mi vida aunque deje de lado los veinticinco años del medio. La historia de cómo fui a caer con unos padres evangélicos pentecostales, que me adoptaron y se empeñaron en que fuera misionera y salvara almas en países tropicales, y de lo que sucedió cuando me enamoré de una chica, cuando los libros entraron en mi vida, cuando me marché a Oxford, cómo me convertí en escritora y cómo sobreviví a todas las cosas extrañas que han constituido mi vida. No son unas memorias tristes: es un libro sobre la esperanza, sobre los cambios, sobre la buena suerte y las oportunidades, y te reconfortará.» La crítica ha dicho sobre el libro... «Una inteligencia que recorre una narración a ratos demoledora y hace que el lector quiera teletransportarse espiritualmente a la infancia de JeanetteWinterson. [...] Un relato circular, realista e inconcluso que es un verdadero regalo». Eva Blanco Medina, Vogue «Lo devoré. Y lo releí». Diana López Varela, Público « ¿Por qué ser feliz cuando puedes ser normal? se envuelve con el celofán del humor, que disfraza su vida dickensiana de digerible aventuraliteraria. Winterson ha escrito su autobiografía como la más subyugante de sus novelas». Tereixa Constenla, El País «El libro más conmovedor de Winterson. Y además, de un humor vibrante. Deslumbrante en muchos sentidos, perolo que más impresiona es la profunda simpatía que nos inspiran quienes lo protagonizan». Zoe Williams, The Guardian

Pourquoi être heureux quand on peut être normal ? Etrange question, à laquelle Jeanette Winterson répond en menant une existence en forme de combat. Dès l''enfance, il faut lutter : contre une mère adoptive sévère, qui s''aime peu et ne sait pas aimer. Contre les diktats religieux ou sociaux. Et pour trouver sa voie. Ce livre est une autobiographie guidée par la fantaisie et la férocité, mais c''est surtout l''histoire d''une quête, celle du bonheur. "La vie est faite de couches, elle est fluide, mouvante, fragmentaire", dit Jeanette Winterson. Pour cette petite fille surdouée issue du prolétariat de Manchester, l''écriture est d''abord ce qui sauve. En racontant son histoire, Jeanette Winterson adresse un signe fraternel à toutes celles - et à tous ceux - pour qui la liberté est à conquérir.

‘Op het lichaam geschreven’ van Jeanette Winterson lijkt een simpel verhaal: liefde gevonden, liefde verloren, liefde weer gevonden – misschien. De naamloze verteller wordt verliefd op een getrouwde vrouw genaamd Louise. Louise verlaat haar man voor de verteller, maar als ze erachter komt dat ze kanker heeft, verlaat ze ook haar nieuwe liefde. Op het lichaam geschreven gaat over het ontdekken van je identiteit, over verdriet en over verlangen.

Jack is the chosen one, the Radiant Boy the Magus needs in order to perfect the alchemy that will transform London of the 1600s into a golden city. But Jack isn''t the kind of boy who will do what he is told by an evil genius, and he is soon involved in an epic and nail-biting adventure, featuring dragons, knights and Queen Elizabeth I, as he battles to save London. Jeanette Winterson''s first novel for children, Tanglewreck, was widely admired. Here in her second, readers will once more relish her free-spirited literary inventiveness and style.

En un futur no gaire llunyà, la Billie s''embarca en una missió especial cap al Planeta Blau, un lloc carregat de promeses que ha de servir d''alternativa als humans un cop la Terra quedi definitivament destruïda. Ara per ara, el nostre vell planeta és un desert poblat de màquines i robots, en convivència amb uns humans que, aliens a les lleis de la natura tal i com la coneixem, han descobert la manera de no envellir venent cos i ànima als experts en cirurgia plàstica. En el curs d''aquest viatge cap al desconegut, la Billie s''enamorarà de la Spike, una estranya criatura nascuda de la ciència i l''art més avançats; ¿què passarà quan la seva història d''amor convergeixi amb la història del món, el futur dels planetes i l''esdevenir de la raça humana?

The New York Times–bestselling author interweaves the destinies of Napoleon’s cook and an enigmatic Venetian woman in this “arresting, elegant novel” (Publishers Weekly). A faithful soldier of the Grande Armée, Henri is given the honor of serving meals to Napoleon himself. After all, Henri is short—and no one over five-foot-two ever serves the emperor. But when following his revered leader brings him to near-starvation in Russia’s frozen winter, Henri is disillusioned and desperate for escape. The web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, Villanelle has long been acquainted with the advantages of dishonesty. Trust hasn’t been her strong suit since her heart was stolen—literally—by a noblewoman she once loved. Soon these two will meet their shared destiny in the chaotic carnival that is early 19th century Venice. In The Passion, Whitbread Award-winning author Jeanette Winterson delivers a “historical novel quite different from any other” (Vanity Fair). “Recalls García Márquez . . . Magical touches dance like highlights over the brilliance of this fairy tale about passion, gambling, madness, and androgynous ecstasy.” —Edmund White

The New York Times–bestselling author’s Whitbread Prize–winning debut—“Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel” (The Washington Post Book World). When it first appeared, Jeanette Winterson’s extraordinary debut novel received unanimous international praise, including the prestigious Whitbread Prize for best first fiction. Winterson went on to fulfill that promise, producing some of the most dazzling fiction and nonfiction of the past decade, including her celebrated memoir Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?. Now required reading in contemporary literature, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl’s adolescence. Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age, and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household dissolves. Jeanette’s insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mind—and on reporting them with wit and passion—makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood. “If Flannery O’Connor and Rita Mae Brown had collaborated on the coming-out story of a young British girl in the 1960s, maybe they would have approached the quirky and subtle hilarity of Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical first novel. . . . Winterson’s voice, with its idiosyncratic wit and sensitivity, is one you’ve never heard before.” —Ms. Magazine

Eleven-year-old Silver sets out to find the Timekeeper--a clock that controls time--and to protect it from falling into the hands of two people who want to use the device for their own nefarious ends.

What begins as a witty, satirical futurist adventure deepens into a dazzling exploration of humankind''s relationship to environment, power, and technology, and to what defines us as humans.

An orphaned girl is held spellbound by the tales of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish coast, in a novel by the Costa Award-winning author of The Passion. After her mother is literally swept away by the savage winds off the Atlantic coast of Salts, Scotland, never to be seen again, the orphaned Silver is feeling particularly unmoored. Taken in by the mysterious keeper of a lighthouse on Cape Wrath, Silver finds an anchor in Mr. Pew—blind, as old and legendary as a unicorn, and a yarn spinner of persuasive power. The tale he has to tell Silver is that of a nineteenth-century clergyman named Babel Dark, whose life was divided between a loving light and a mask of deceit. Peopled with such luminaries as Charles Darwin and Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. Pew’s story within a story within a story soon unfolds like a map. It’s one that Silver must follow if she’s to be led through her own darkness, and to find her own meaning in life, in this novel by a winner of the Costa, Lambda, and E.M. Forster Awards, the author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit; Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and other acclaimed works. “In her sea-soaked and hypnotic eighth novel, Winterson turns the tale of an orphaned young girl and a blind old man into a fable about love and the power of storytelling…Atmospheric and elusive, Winterson''s high-modernist excursion is an inspired meditation on myth and language.”—The New Yorker

An enchanting modern fairytale with a very romantic twist

"EL Powerbook" de Jeanette Winterson combina la gran tradición narrativa universal con las posibilidades abiertas por la informática, y particularmente por internet. Y no sólo por el hecho de que el argumento gire en torno a un cruce de mensajes entre dos personajes que ocultan su verdadera personalidad, sino sobre todo porque la sensación de fugacidad, de inmediatez y de distancia está muy bien logrado mediante el empleo de diálogos rápidos, esquemáticos y contundentes, tan ambiguos y espontáneos como los que pueden leerse en un foro de internautas. Sin embargo, el gran tema de la novela, el sentimiento amoroso, es presentado desde sus más diversad perspectivas y analizados con una profundidad poco común en una novela.

Eine junge Schriftstellerin sitzt an ihrem Computer. Unter dem Namen Ali sendet sie Geschichten hinaus in die Weite der virtuellen Welt und lauert als Spinne im Netz auf elektronische Beute. Sie wartet auf E-Mails ihrer Geliebten, von der sie in der realen Welt für die schnöde Realität einer Ehe verlassen wurde. So wird Ali zur Scheherazade, die in einer einzigen Nacht versucht, schreibend den tragischen Ausgang ihrer Liebesgeschichte zu verändern. Jeanette Winterson vollbringt ein Virtuosenstück; aus der Unverbindlichkeit der Cyberworld fördert sie mit alchemistischer Gabe zu Tage, was Raum, Zeit und Identität überwinden und dadurch Dauer erlangen kann.

"Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial north of England. Her youth is spent embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household collapses. Jeanette''s insistence on listening to the truths of her own heart and mind--and on reporting them with wit and passion--makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an extraordinary passage into adulthood."--P. [4] of cover.

De levens van en de driehoeksverhouding tussen een Engelse vrouwelijke natuurkundige en een Amerikaanse natuurkundige en zijn vrouw worden verbonden met theorieën en ideeën over ruimte, tijd en materie.

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world, neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, effecting even those who don''t.