WRITTEN ON THE BODY
‘Winterson’s novels are about exploding our complacent notions of the real, breaking down received ideas of gender, time and space… John Donne wrote, “Love…makes one little room, as everywhere.” Winterson’s novel arrives at a similar affirmation’
– Time Out
Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn’t know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.
‘An ambitious work, at once at love story and a philosophical meditation on the body…the result is a work that is consistently revelatory about the phenomenon of love’
– New York Times Book Review
PUBLISHER: Vintage
PUBLICATION DATE: March 2010
RIGHTS CONTROLLED: Translation
RIGHTS SOLD: Chinese (simplified), German, Italian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian
