Jeanette Winterson Libros

¿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.

A powerful retelling of the traditional Nativity Story. In this beautifully evocative retelling of the story of the very first Christmas, the humble donkey is chosen above all the other animals to carry Mary to Bethlehem. As his journey unfolds, he is touched by the magic and mystery of the Nativity ... With sparkles of originality, humour and warmth, the Christmas story is born.

This is the story of Henri, a young Frenchman sent to fight in the Napoleonic wars. It is the story of Villanelle, a cross-dressing Venetian woman, born with webbed feet. There are four sections: The Emperor. The Queen of Spades. The Zero Winter. The Rock. Told in the first-person, The Emperor is Henri's narrative, while The Queen of Spades belongs to Villanelle. The pair meet in Russia in The Zero Winter. From then the narratives switch and intertwine.

›Las olas‹, la sexta novela de Virginia Woolf, fue publicada en 1931. Es la más original y profunda de todas sus obras, quizás una obra maestra. En ›Las olas‹, seis personas se reúnen. Sus voces evocan la intensidad de la infancia, la confianza y la experiencia sensorial de la juventud, así como la liberación del mediano edad. Las percepciones sensoriales, emociones y reflexiones fluyen y refluye en el avance del relato como las estaciones, como las olas del mar. La evocación magistral de la evolución de Bernard, Louis, Neville, Rhoda, Jinny y Susan -seis voces completamente diferentes- y su representación artística de la marea de sus experiencias sensoriales e intelectuales constituye uno de los experimentos más radicales de la literatura del siglo veinte. ›Las olas‹ es la respuesta singular de la modernidad al tradicional género de la novela de formación.

Written on the Body is a love story; the narrator a vulnerable and subversive Lothario, gender undeclared. Generous in scope, sumptuous in detail, Jeanette Winterson has fused mathematical exactness and poetic intensity and made language new

These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those who don't. Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, painting, the future of fiction, in two essays on Virginia Woolf, and more intimately in pieces where she describes her relationship to her work and the books that she loves.

The incredible variety of Acker's body of work has been distilled into a single volume that reads like a communique from the front lines of late-20th century America. Acker was a literary pirate whose prodigious output drew promiscuously from popular culture, the classics of Western civilization, current events, and the raw material of her own life.

"If you crave the mystery, the family rituals, and the special victuals of Christmastime, you'll savor . . . bold, revelatory feminist writer Jeanette Winterson's Christmas Days." --Elle

This short story collection showcases the diverse talents of English novelist Jeanette Winterson, endearing her to fans. Her writing features fresh phrases that capture the delicate realities of her imaginative worlds, infused with humor that is fierce yet kind. Winterson's characters, a mix of men and women, may not always be successful or commendable, but they remain likable. The stories offer glimpses into the complex woman behind the narratives. In "Atlantic Crossing," she portrays a mid-20th century businessman who shares a cabin with a young black woman during a transatlantic journey. While the plot is minimal, the depth of perception regarding regret makes it as rich as a full novel. In another story, Winterson adopts the voice of a lost female Homer, recounting Orion's tale from Artemis's perspective. "The Poetics of Sex" presents a lesbian love story that vividly expresses both character personalities and their erotic experiences. Meanwhile, "The 24-Hour Dog" delves into psychological thriller territory as a woman writer grapples with returning a puppy she had considered adopting, exploring the unquantifiable aspects of love. This collection invites readers to enjoy and learn from its pages.

In her eye-opening book, Jeanette Winterson explores how artificial intelligence is transforming our lives and relationships. Drawing from diverse fields like history and literature, she delves into intriguing topics such as brain backups and human-non-human connections, blending wit and compassion throughout. A refreshing take on technology's impact.

From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes this magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthouse keeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling.

In a near-future setting, time is becoming unstable due to Time Tornados, which disrupt lives by pulling people from their own eras. Amidst the chaos, a woolly mammoth is spotted by the River Thames.

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, seperately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another throu

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, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, into the future? Will they - and we - ever find a safe landing place? An interplanetary love story - of Billie and Spike, of the past and the future; a traveller's tale; a hymn to the beauty of the world: The Stone Gods is Jeanette Winterson at her brilliant best. Playful, passionate, polemical, and frequently very funny, this is a novel that will change forever the stories we tell about the earth, about love and about stories themselves.

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 Also in the Vintage Minis series- Eating by Nigella Lawson Jealousy by Marcel Proust Babies by Anne Enright Desire by Haruki Murakami

Set in the 17th century, "Sexing the Cherry" celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. This is the story of Jordan, an orphan found floating on the River Thames, and his keeper, The Dog Woman, a huge and monstrous creature with a powerful right hook and a wide vocabulary. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and, twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.

‘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.

Funny, tender and full of surprises, Gut Symmetries is a celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess. Set on board the QE2, and in New York and Liverpool, it explores parallel lives, loves and universes.

La señora Dalloway relata un día en la vida londinense de Clarissa, una dama de alta alcurnia casada con un diputado conservador y madre de una adolescente. La historia comienza una soleada mañana de 1923 y termina esa misma noche, cuando empiezan a retirarse los invitados de una fiesta que se celebra en la mansión de los Dalloway. Aunque en el curso del día acaece un hecho trágico -el suicidio de un joven que volvió de la guerra psíquicamente perturbado-, lo esencial de la obra estriba en que los sucesos están narrados desde la mente de los personajes, con un lenguaje capaz de dibujar los meandros y ritmos escurridizos de la conciencia y de expresar la condición de la mujer de un modo a la vez íntimo y objetivo. «Tal vez su obra maestra. Exquisita y soberbiamente construida.» E. M. Forster

Thirteen stories offer fresh looks at the relationship between men and women by using dream imagery and surrealism

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 s

A strikingly original and profound slice of mythology from the award-winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

'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 genre-bending and masterful new collection of ghost stories from Jeanette Winterson A ghost has no substance, but it has power - and presence - and it can appear in alternative forms. In the metaverse, we are all alternative forms. The Dead will join us. 'Always passionate and provocative' NEW STATESMAN 'The best living writer in this language' EVENING STANDARD Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We track our friends and family wherever they go. We have millennia of knowledge at our fingertips. We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs. We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've simply adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just as they haunt our homes and our memories, always seeking new ways to connect. To live amongst us. To remind us. To tempt us. To take their revenge. These stories are not ours to tell. They are the stories of the dead - of those we've lost, loved, forgotten... and feared. Some are fiction. But some may not be.

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 Stone Gods is one of Jeanette Winterson's most imaginative novels -- an interplanetary love story; a traveller's tale; a hymn to the beauty of the worldOn 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, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, into the future? Will they - and we - ever find a safe landing place?Jeanette Winterson OBE, whose writing has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and the E.M. Forster Award, is the author of some of the most purely imaginative and pleasurable novels of recent times, from Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit to her first book for children, Tanglewreck. She is also the author of the essays Art Objects. Visit her website at www.jeanettewinterson.com

Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrest≤ it didn't matter what." --Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 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. * With a new introduction by the author

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.

An evil Magus is intent on turning London into gold. Only a boy and his quick wits stand between the Magus and his goal Jeanette Winterson at her most inventive, lyrical, imaginative and brilliant.

From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire 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 cryonics 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.

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.

"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 ..."--Jacket.

In a fresh retelling of the classic tale, Jeanette Winterson reimagines the story of Hansel and Gretel, bringing new life and perspective to beloved characters and themes. This reinterpretation is part of a broader movement to remix and revive fairy tales, offering readers a contemporary twist on familiar narratives. Winterson's unique voice and storytelling style promise to engage both new audiences and those familiar with the original tale.

For nearly 70 years, an English-language bookstore in Paris has served as a haven for renowned writers like Jorge Luis Borges, James Baldwin, A. M. Homes, and Dave Eggers, as well as aspiring authors and poets. Visitors can read in the library, enjoy tea, and even sleep among the towering shelves, with over 30,000 having stayed at this unique venue since 1951. This fully illustrated history draws from a century of previously unseen archives, combining photographs and ephemera with personal essays, diary entries, and poems from over seventy contributors, including Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, and Sylvia Beach. The book showcases hundreds of images, Tumbleweed autobiographies, and historical documents, featuring illustrious guests like William Burroughs, Henry Miller, and Zadie Smith. It chronicles more than 100 years in the French capital, exploring the Lost Generation, the Beats, the Cold War, May '68, and the feminist movement, all while celebrating the enduring charm of bohemian life in Paris.

Die Weihnachtszeit und die Tage »zwischen den Jahren« sind eine Zeit des Zusammenkommens, eine Zeit des Feierns, Schenkens und Teilens. Und was eignet sich dafür besser als eine gute Geschichte? Jeanette Wintersons Winter- und Weihnachtsgeschichten laden dazu ein, am Kamin gelesen zu werden, zusammen oder allein, im Schnee oder auf dem Weg nach Hause. Sie wollen mit Freunden geteilt oder, hübsch verpackt, an einen geliebten Menschen verschenkt werden. Zu jeder der zwölf Geschichten hat die Autorin ein Rezept ausgewählt, mit dem sie Anekdoten und lieb gewonnene kulinarische Traditionen an ihre Leser weitergibt. Liebevoll ausgestattete Ausgabe mit Leinenrücken und Lesebändchen. Weitere berührende Wunderraum-Geschichten finden Sie in unserem kostenlosen aktuellen Leseproben-E-Book »Einkuscheln und loslesen – Bücher für kurze Tage und lange Nächte«

A masterpiece of nature writing, now in a Canons edition.

Een soldaat-kok in het Franse leger verliest zijn hart aan Napoleon en vervolgens aan een Venetiaanse gondeliersdochter.

Récit autobiographique sur la quête d'identité de l'auteure et des femmes luttant pour leur liberté. J. Winterson rend hommage à ces figures dans ses mémoires d'une jeune fille du prolétariat de Manchester.

Kniha Dieťa v rovnováhe je vášnivý manifest prístupu k učeniu, ktorý berie do úvahy cele telo - integruje mozog, zmysly, pohyb a hru. Tento slovenský preklad revidovaného vydania obsahuje aj kapitolu určenú pre rodičov, aby mohli byť nápomocní svojim deťom pri rozvoji ich plného fyzického a mentálneho potenciálu. Tato praktická a inšpiratívna príručka pomôže rodičom a pedagógom porozumieť: - prečo je pohyb tak dôležitý - ako hudba pomáha pri vývine mozgu - aku úlohu hrá výživa, samotný mozog a rast dieťaťa - ako pomôcť dieťaťu pri problémoch v učení a správaní

Een Engelse internet-auteur schrijft verhalen over o.a. haar liefde voor een getrouwde vrouw.

Die Dreiecksgeschichte zwischen Stella, Jove und Alice entfaltet sich auf dem Dampfer QE2 und an verschiedenen Orten, von New York bis zur Vorkriegszeit in Österreich. Sie thematisiert die komplexen Beziehungen und das Verlangen zwischen den Charakteren, wobei sie durch verschiedene Zeiten und Dimensionen führt.

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.

Een vrouw en jongen in het 17e-eeuwse Engeland blijken zich in bizarre 20e-eeuwse fantasieën te bevinden.