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This new world weighs a yatto-gram. But everything is trial-size; tread-on-me-tiny or blurred-out-offocus huge. There are leaves that have grown as big as cities, and there are birds that nest in cockleshells. On the white sand there are long-toed claw prints deep as nightmares, and there are rock pools in hand-hollows finned by invisible fish . . . Mankind has rendered it
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Contemporary, epic, contemplative and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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- Author
- Jeanette Winterson
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Vintage Canada, Mondadori, Hamish Hamilton
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Spanish, English, Italian, German
- ISBN
- 9780547416267
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“This new world weighs a yatto-gram.”
Jeanette Winterson is an British author. Her first book, *Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,* was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages.
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