Jeanette Winterson
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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. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryogenics facility houses dozens of bodies of men and women who are medically and legally dead… but waiting to return to life.<BR><BR>What will happen when <i>homo sapiens</i> is no longer the smartest being on the planet? In fiercely intelligent prose, Jeanette Winterson shows us how much closer we are to that future than we realize. Funny and furious, bold and clear-sighted, <i>Frankissstein</i> is a love story about life itself.
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere
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 still face discrimination and disadvantage. Like the women who won the right to vote, we need to shout up, reach out, be courageous and finish the job.
Also included in this volume is Emmeline Pankhurst’s landmark Suffragette speech, ‘Freedom or Death’, which she delivered in 1913.
Frankissstein
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 el futur no és només a les mans de científics arrogants, sinó que també és terreny adobat per a retrògrads oportunistes. Aquesta novel·la, que qüestiona el gènere, el llenguatge, la sexualitat i els límits de la llibertat individual, és audaç, divertida, furiosa i, sobretot, clarivident. «Sí, el llibre que tots estàvem esperant. Sí, hi ha tot el que Winterson ha fet sempre tan bé. Sí, millor i molt per sobre del que us pugueu imaginar. El millor llibre de l'any.» Daisy Johnson
