Bøger af Jeanette Winterson

'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 wrestle; it didn't matter what'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.'Witty extraordinary and exhilarating' The Times'She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides' Vanity Fair'Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming' Evening Standard'A novel that deserves revisiting' Observer'A wonderful rites-of-passage novel' Mariella Frostrup

London. England. I finanskrisens kølvand. Den ukuelige og magtfulde investeringsrådgiver Leo er overbevist om, at hans gravide kone, MiMi, bedrager ham med hans barndomsven, Xeno, og at det ufødte barn ikke er hans. Da pigen Perdita kommer til verden, får Leo i blindt raseri og sygelig jalousi sin nyfødte datter sendt væk over Atlanten. Her bliver hun fundet af barpianisten Shep og vokser op hos ham i de amerikanske sydstater. New Bohemia. Amerika. Sytten år senere. Perdita er ved at forelske sig i en ung mand, men der er meget, de ikke ved om hinanden og sig selv. Sammen sætter de sig for at løse mysteriet om Perditas oprindelse og læge gamle sår. Men kan det, man én gang har tabt, vindes tilbage, og kan tilgivelse bygge bro over tidens kløft? TIDENS KLØFT, Jeanette Wintersons version af William Shakespeares Vintereventyret , er en fortælling om jalousiens altopslugende magt og den dybe længsel efter at råde bod på fortidens fejltrin. ”VINTEREVENTYRET, Shakespeares sene skuespil om tid og tilgivelse, fornyes og aktualiseres mesterligt af britiske Jeanette Winterson. Finalen er ligefrem genial. (…) Den prisbelønnede forfatter gør det mesterligt. (…) Winterston smadrer simpelthen igennem sin egen prosa og tvinger læseren med ind på papiret. Psykologisk indsigtsfuldt. Brutalt. Men samtidig genialt. Lidt ligesom Shakespeare.” Weekendavisen ”Det ambitiøse projekt med moderne genskrivninger af Shakespeare-dramaer kunne næsten ikke indledes bedre. Jeanette Winterson løser opgaven til UG.” Jyllandsposten, 6 ud af 6 stjerner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★★ ”Men romanen lader sig læse for sig selv. For sådan er det jo gerne med god litteratur: Universelle temaer draperet i tidens klæder.” Berlingske, 5 stjerner ★ ★ ★ ★★ "Der er smæk på: Drama, svigt, håb, åh, så meget kompliceret kærlighed og pyh, lidt humor. Der er i det hele taget, som i de fleste af geniets fortællinger, alt, hvad der er at finde i livet – og så er den lige skruet op til maks! Hvis Shakespeare normalt og umiddelbart ikke er dig, så er denne bog (og hele Modtryks serie af opdaterede Shakespeare-værker) ideel, fordi du får historien uden alle versefødderne. Det stråler ud af siderne, hvor meget forfatteren har hygget sig." Magasinet Liv, 6 ud af 6 stjerner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ "Værket fremstår på én gang ubesværet og grundigt gennemtænkt, og det får de varmeste anbefalinger fra undertegnede, uanset om man er ekspert i Shakespeare eller ej, da det i begge tilfælde vil være en fornøjelse at læse Wintersons roman." Littuna.nu "En indtagende, tankevækkende, morsom og meget læseværdig udgave af Shakespeares skuespil Vintereventyret." Litteratursiden.dk "Winterson tryllebandt mig med den moderne fortolkning, hvor man drager fra London til de amerikanske sydstater og tilbage igen. "Tidens Kløft" er barsk, sjov, rørende og fantastisk godt skrevet." Bogens univers

An anthology of opera-inspired stories by the best writers of modern fiction published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of one of Britain's most extraordinary cultural institutions.

A Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year'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.

'A fantasy, a vivid dream...inventive and brilliant' GuardianHenri has a passion for Napoleon - but Napoleon has a passion for chicken.

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.

The Stone Gods is one of Jeanette Winterson's most imaginative novels about love.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?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

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.

Our lives are digital, exposed and always-on. We know everything about our world. But we know nothing about theirs. We have changed, but our ghosts have not. They've adapted and innovated, found new channels to reach us. They inhabit our apps and wander the metaverse just like they haunt our homes. To live amongst us. To take their revenge.

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.

"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," wrote Dwight Garner in the New York Times about Jeanette Winterson's last novel, Frankissstein, her first foray into the subject of AI. In 12 Bytes, Winterson's first nonfiction since her bestselling Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, draws deeper from her years of considering artificial intelligence in all its bewildering manifestations. In brilliant, laser-focused, uniquely pointed, and witty storytelling, 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"--

Alice Nutter fights for justice when a group of Pendle women are accused of witchcraft during the reign of England's James I, when being Catholic is considered an act of treason and the Latin High Mass is comparable to the satanic Black Mass.

The Whitbread Prize-winning author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit delivers a novel that "transports us to something like the future of our own planet" (Washington Post Book World).On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet?pristine and plentiful, as our own was 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade Robo sapien Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they're assigned to colonize the new blue planet. But when a technical maneuver intended to make it habitable backfires, Billie and Spike's flight to the future becomes a surprising return to the distant past, and they discover that "everything is imprinted forever with what once was."

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.

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

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

Selvbiografisk, humoristisk roman fra et strengt religiøst miljø. Jeanette blir adoptert av en religiøs familie i Nord-England. Snart er hun en del av en evangelisk vekkelsesbevegelse, men etter hvert som hun blir eldre, oppdager Jeanette uortodokse sider ved sin seksualitet. Dette fører til at hjemmet går i oppløsning, og Jeanette, som insisterer på å følge sitt eget hjerte, får dermed en eksentrisk og opprørende oppvekst.

Is it a witches' Sabbat?In Lancaster Castle two notorious witches await trial and certain death, while the beautiful and wealthy Alice Nutter rides to their defence. Elsewhere a starved child lurks.

Jeanette Winterson retells 'Hansel and Gretel'. '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.

How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. This book focuses on love in all its forms. It includes selections from Jeanette Winterson's books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for the mythical creature we call Love.