" The Winter’s Tale, one of the late, 'problem' plays, is about loss, remorse and forgiveness, and the nature of time. Pulsates with such authenticity and imaginative generosity that I defy you not to engage with it." (Andrew Dickson Independent) "A deeply felt, emotionally intelligent and serious novel, which resists easy answers and yet expresses the hope that human beings can muddle through, and that bad pasts can have good outcomes. There is lightness here, in the frisky prose and the author’s delight in invention, but you are never free of the awareness of dark shadows where danger and corruption lie in wait." (Allan Massie Scotsman) "Winterson is faithful to both the narrative and the spirit of the play, while transposing it to an utterly different and modern setting. "Winterson’s stage, like that of Shakespeare, is filled with wonders" (Frances Wilson Times Literary Supplement) Winterson’s fiction is a fine invitation into this deeply Shakespearean vision of imagination as the best kind of truth-telling" (Rowan Williams New Statesman) it’s part of a vision of a world in which past, present, and future are lived simultaneously, original and adaptation existing in the same moment." ( The Times) "The intricacy with which Winterson has plotted her novel against each Shakespearean detail will delight readers familiar with the original.
"She makes us read on, our hearts in our mouths, to see how a twice-told story will turn out this time" ( Publishers Weekly) A supremely clever, compelling and emotionally affecting novel that deserves multiple readings to appreciate its many layers'Mail on Sunday 'There are passages here so concisely beautiful they give you goosebumps'Observer'Pulsates with such authenticity and imaginative generosity that I defy you not to engage with it'Independentĭie Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen. `Emotionally wrought and profoundly intelligent. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't know a lot about who she is or where she's come from - but she's about to find out., Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale vibrates with echoes of Shakespeare's original and tells a story of hearts broken and hearts healed, a story of revenge and forgiveness, a story that shows that whatever is lost shall be found. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. `A shining delight of a novel'New York Times 'Clever and soars'Financial Times A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia.
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