Since her astonishing debut at twenty-five with <i>Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit</i>, Jeanette Winterson has achieved worldwide critical and commercial success as “one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time” (<i>Elle</i>). Her new novel, <i>Frankissstein</i>, is an audacious love story that weaves together disparate lives into an exploration of transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and queer love.<BR><BR>Lake Geneva, 1816....
El 1816 Mary Shelley escriu un relat sobre la creació d'una forma de vida no biològica, sobre els límits de la raó i sobre allò que considerem humà. Anys després, a la Gran Bretanya post-Brexit, Ry Shelley, un jove transgènere, s'endinsa al món de la intel·ligència artificial i s'enamora d'en Victor Stein, un professor que lidera el debat públic al voltant de noves formes d'existència. Frankissstein ens parla dels cossos que habitem i dels que desitgem. Ens suggereix que...
From one of Britain’s best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling.Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life, Babel Dark’s, a...
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a timely and inspiring call to arms by one of Britain’s most acclaimed and important writers. Whilst recognising how far women have come in the hundred years since getting the vote, Jeanette Winterson also insists that we must all do much more if we are to achieve true gender equality. Examining recent women’s rights movements, the worlds of politics, technology and social media and changes in the law, Winterson calls out all the ways in which women...
