C'è un mondo in cui è vietato dormire e un'isola piena di diamanti dove la ricchezza è possedere gioielli di carbone... una serie di brevi apologhi e folgoranti allegorie nei quali la più dotata narratrice inglese contemporanea, ci mostra il suo lato più fantasioso, lirico ed emotivo accostandosi ai grandi maestri della narrativa breve, da Angela Carter a Italo Calvino.

Su un transatlantico in viaggio per New York il lettore incontra tre strani personaggi: Alice una studiosa di fisica, Jove suo eminente collega e Stella, una poetessa. Le loro voci si intersecano mostrando a poco a poco un enigmatico intreccio amoroso che diviene paradigma della fragilità dell'amore.

eanette Winterson's first collection of short stories was well received when originally published in Cape hardback. 'The quality of her writing has remained constant: precise, fluent, perfectly judged. This collection is another refinement of

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 che mescola il gusto orientale per la fiaba e la tradizione filosofica occidentale.

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

Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age, and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household dissolves. Jeanette's insistence on listening to the truths of her own heart and mind - and on reporting them with wit and passion - makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving passage into adulthood.

One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity. "A series of intense, artful musings that are exhilarating and visionary. . . . Unsettling yet strangely satisfying."--Newsday.

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review.

Una storia d'amore e una meditazione sul corpo, nella sua concretezza fisica e come deposito di sentimenti ed emozioni. Oggetto d'amore è una donna sposata, protagonista invece un narratore il sui sesso non viene mai specificato: una voce che riflette e racconta, la passione, l'eros, la differenza sessuale, la perdita, parlando contemporaneamente al maschile e al femminile.