by Jeanette Winterson · Uitgeverij Prometheus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789035110366
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«Passie» is the novel by Jeanette Winterson, published by Uitgeverij Prometheus in paperback (187 pages, in Dutch).
During the Napoleonic Wars, a cook in the French army becomes infatuated with Napoleon and, later, in Venice, falls in love with a gondolier's daughter. With echoes of magical realism, the novel interweaves history and fantasy to explore love, desire and the search for identity.
Dutch translation by Geertje Lammers of «The Passion», original 1987 novel winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Number 271 in the Ooievaar collection.
For readers of literary and historical fiction with fantastical elements and queer themes.
Jeanette Winterson is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender and sexual identity, and her later ones the relations between humans and technology. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages. She also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.
