New Releases by Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson is the author of The World and Other Places (2013), Gut Symmetries (2013), Art & Lies (2013), La mujer de púrpura (2013), Waarom gelukkig zijn als je ook normaal kunt zijn? (2012).

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The World and Other Places

release date: Apr 17, 2013
The World and Other Places
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)

Gut Symmetries

release date: Apr 17, 2013
Gut Symmetries
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

Art & Lies

release date: Apr 17, 2013
Art & Lies
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.

La mujer de púrpura

release date: Jan 01, 2013
La mujer de púrpura
El norte es un lugar oscuro. Así empieza esta novela de Jeanette Winterson, que está en la lista de bestsellers en Inglaterra. Podríamos definirla como una novela gótica porque ahí están todos los elementos del género, pero la voz de Winterson la convierte en una buena novela a secas. La historia se basa en un hecho real: el juicio a unas mujeres en Lancashire, acusadas de brujería en tiempos de Jaime I, un rey protestante obsesionado con la idea de limpiarInglaterra de toda huella de herejía. Incluso existe un informe escrito de los hechos, firmado por el notario que asistió al proceso, pero obviamente sus palabras son tendenciosas. Con este testimonio, Winterson ha recreado la época y ha introducido en aquella realidad truculenta el personaje de Alice Nutter, una mujer que vive de su propio trabajo, pues ha inventado una fórmula para teñir la ropa de un color rojo oscuro que ha despertado incluso el interés y las atenciones amorosas de la reina, y además posee un líquido capaz de mantenerla joven y hermosa aunque los años pasen.

Waarom gelukkig zijn als je ook normaal kunt zijn?

release date: Jun 26, 2012
Waarom gelukkig zijn als je ook normaal kunt zijn?
Openhartig, pijnlijk eerlijk en rauw: Waarom gelukkig zijn als je normaal kunt zijn geeft een heel nieuw inzicht in de ontwikkeling van het schrijverschap van de belangrijkste vrouwelijke romancier van Engeland. Het geeft de lezer een kader waarin Jeanette Wintersons romans gelezen kunnen worden en een beter begrip van haar werk. In Waarom gelukkig zijn als je normaal kunt zijn beschrijft Winterson haar vroegste jeugd, de breuk met haar adoptieouders en de zoektocht naar haar echte moeder. Jeanette Winterson debuteerde in 1985 met Sinaasappelen zijn niet de enige vruchten. De BBC bewerkte deze roman tot een televisieserie, die in ons land door de NOS onder de titel Sinaasappels en demonen werd uitgezonden. Verder verschenen van haar onder meer De passie, Op het lichaam geschreven, Vuurtorenwachten en De stenen goden. Van haar roman Op het lichaam geschreven werden in Nederland 25.000 exemplaren verkocht. Ze ontving de Engelse Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel en de Amerikaanse E.M. Forster Award. Winterson woont in Oxfordshire en Londen. Zie ook www.jeanettewinterson.com.

Les Oranges ne sont pas les seuls fruits

release date: May 03, 2012
Les Oranges ne sont pas les seuls fruits
" 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

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

release date: Mar 06, 2012
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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.

Perché essere felice quando puoi essere normale?

release date: Mar 06, 2012
Perché essere felice quando puoi essere normale?
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?".

¿Por qué ser feliz cuando puedes ser normal?

release date: Feb 09, 2012
¿Por qué ser feliz cuando puedes ser normal?
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. Curiosa 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 mismísimo diablo se rebeló, para buscar el placer en la piel de otras mujeres y encontrar en la biblioteca del barrio novelas y poemas que la ayudaran a crecer. Eso y mucho más es lo que ofrecen estas páginas excepcionales en las que Winterson se quita la máscara de la ficción para contar la historia real tras su legendaria novela Las naranjas no son la única fruta: un libro de memorias que ya se ha convertido en un clásico de la literatura contemporánea. La crítica ha dicho: «Una inteligencia que recorre una narración a ratos demoledora y hace que el lector quiera teletransportarse espiritualmente a la infancia de Jeanette Winterson. [...] Un relato circular, realista e inconcluso que es un verdadero regalo». Eva Blanco Medina, Vogue «¿ Por qué ser feliz cuando puedes ser normal? se envuelve con el celofán del humor, que disfraza su vida dickensiana de digerible aventura literaria. Winterson ha escrito su autobiografía como la más subyugante de sus novelas». Tereixa Constenla, El País «El libro más conmovedor de Winterson». Zoe Williams, The Guardian «Estruendoso. Zumba con un oscuro brillo desde sus primeras páginas [...]. Si bien la infancia de Winterson fue a menudo espantosa, la convirtió en la escritora que es hoy». The New York Times «Orgullosa y dolorosamente honestas. Pero también podría decirse que son las mejores y más esperanzadoras memorias que han aparecido en muchos años y, como tales, no deberían perdérselas». The Times «Clarividente, valiente y vivamente expresiva, Winterson lleva a cabo una trágica y reveladora indagación sobre la forja del yo y el poder liberador de la literatura». Booklist «Una de las escritoras más atrevidas e inventivas de nuestro tiempo[...]. Su vida emocional queda al descubierto [...] en una narración valientemente franca». Elle «Una vertiginosa bildungsroman [...]. Constituye una prueba de la generosidad innata de Winterson, así como de su talento, el que pueda mostrar con un humor desmedido la locura de su madre». The New York Times Book Review «Quizá el escrito más sincero de Winterson [...]: la verdad pura y dura, desnuda hasta el hueso, que no oculta nada [...]. Sus observaciones se leen como versículos de la Biblia [...]: audaces, hermosas y verdaderas». Los Angeles Review of Books

Pourquoi être heureux quand on peut être normal ?

release date: Jan 01, 2012
Pourquoi être heureux quand on peut être normal ?
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

release date: Dec 05, 2011
Op het lichaam geschreven
‘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.

The Battle of the Sun

release date: Dec 07, 2009
The Battle of the Sun
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.

Planeta Blau

release date: Jul 01, 2008
Planeta Blau
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?

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

release date: Dec 01, 2007
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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

Tanglewreck

release date: May 15, 2007
Tanglewreck
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.

The Stone Gods

release date: Jan 01, 2007
The Stone Gods
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.

Lighthousekeeping

release date: Apr 03, 2006
Lighthousekeeping
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

Tuletornipidamine

release date: Jan 01, 2006

La Niña del faro

release date: Jan 01, 2005

The King of Capri

release date: Sep 01, 2004
The King of Capri
An enchanting modern fairytale with a very romantic twist

El Powerbook

release date: Jan 06, 2004
El Powerbook
"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.

Sexing the Cherry

release date: Oct 24, 2000
Sexing the Cherry
In the reign of Charles II, Jordan and his mother, the Dog-Woman, live on the banks of the stinking Thames, where they take in sights ranging from the first pineapple in London to Royalist heads on pikes. As a young man, Jordan leaves to travel the world, seeking wonder and knowledge, and learns that every journey conceals another within it. Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perceptions of history and reality; love and sex; lies and truths; and the twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.

The Passion

release date: Jan 01, 1997
The Passion
Winner of the 1987 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, this novel explores the many faces of passion. Set in Napoleon''s Europe, it is an evocative exploration of love, war and chance.

Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

release date: Jan 01, 1997
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
"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.

GUT symmetrie

release date: Jan 01, 1997
GUT symmetrie
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.

Art and Lies

release date: Mar 01, 1995
Art and Lies
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. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Art Objects

release date: Jan 01, 1995
Art Objects
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.

Fruta prohibida

release date: Jan 01, 1995

Great Moments in Aviation and Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

release date: Jan 01, 1994
Great Moments in Aviation and Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
Two Jeanette Winterson film scripts. Set in the 1950s, Great Moments in Aviation features a young black woman with a passion for aeroplanes. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, an award-winning television drama, is an adaptation of the author''s novel of the same name.

Narance nisu jedino voce

release date: Jan 01, 1988
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