Jeanette Winterson Libri

Il romanzo è il racconto in prima persona di Henri, cuoco nell'esercito di Napoleone, e della sua passione non corrisposta per la figlia lesbica di un gondoliere veneziano. Il resoconto di un innamorato che scava dentro se stesso per scoprire finalmente il confine segreto fra l'amore e l'ossessione, tra la favola e il sentimento autentico. Sullo sfondo dell'ascesa e del declino di Napoleone, si intreccia un'opera che fonde temi scabrosi e fantasia, esplorando i sottili meccanismi psicologici che innescano la smodata adorazione per un leader e per una donna.

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.

Meet two heroes of Pakistan who stood up for the rights to freedom and education in these inspirational nonfiction tales Jeanette Winter.

A paperback picture book based on the true story of Wangari Maathai, an environmental and political activist in Kenya and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004.

A century after women were first granted the vote, award-winning author Jeanette Winterson celebrates how far we have come on the road to equality, and calls on women and men alike to continue the fight

The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival. This book is that story's the silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother and a journey into madness and out again. It is generous, honest and true. 'Unforgettable... It's the best book I have ever read about the cost of growing up' Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**

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.

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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