brilliantly physical (and funny) detail' Times Literary Supplement 'Its concentrated, beautifully detailed prose recalls the diction of fairy tales its plot incorporates their magic, their shrewd wit and brutality. inventive and brilliant' Guardian 'As moving and funny as it is skilful, and reflects the author's formidable appetite for life' Sunday Times 'A book of great imaginative audacity and assurance. As the soldier-chef's love for Napoleon turns to hate he finds the Venetian beauty, and together they flee to the canals of darkness. Meanwhile, in Venice, the city of chance and disguises, Villanelle was born with the webbed feet of her boatman father - but in the casinos she gambled her heart and lost. From Boulogne to Moscow Henri butchered for his Emperor and never killed a single man. Henri had a passion for Napoleon and Napoleon had a passion for chicken.

The New York Timesbestselling author interweaves the destinies of Napoleon’s cook and an enigmatic Venetian woman in this arresting, elegant. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. In her unique and mesmerizing voice, Winterson blends reality with fantasy, dream, and imagination to weave a hypnotic tale with stunning effects.'What you risk reveals what you value.' The Passion is a fairy tale about survival and broken-heartedness, cruelty, obsession and madness. Grove/Atlantic, Inc., Fiction - 176 pages. In Venice's compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meet their singular destiny. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. 'Winterson is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides.' - Vanity Fair First published to great acclaim in 1987, this arresting, elegant novel from Jeanette Winterson uses Napolean's Europe as the setting for a tantalizing surrealistic romance between an observer of history and a creature of fantasy.Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature.

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