One Aladdin Two Lamps [SIGNED EDITION]

Winterson, Jeanette

ISBN 10: 1787336123 / ISBN 13: 9781787336124

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2025

About this Item

A fine, new copy flat signed by the author on the title page. Weaving together fiction, magic and memoir, a look at how the legendary story of One Thousand and One Nights shows how its questions are still relevant to our lives today. B&W illustrations. 261pp.

Seller Inventory # 062644

Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Aladdin Two Lamps [SIGNED EDITION]
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787336123
• ISBN 13: 9781787336124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biographies and Family Histories
  • Fiction and Poetry
  • Bibliography

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Synopsis

An invitation to change our lives and imagine the world anew through reading stories, in the new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

I can change the story because I am the story.

With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of One Thousand and One Nights to show how its questions are still relevant to our lives today. Is love the most important thing in the world? What makes us happy?

In her guise as Aladdin, Jeanette Winterson asks us to reread what we think we know and look again at how fiction works in our lives, giving us the courage to change our own narratives and alter endings we wish to subvert. As a young working-class woman, with no obvious future beyond factory work or marriage, Winterson realised through the power of books that she could read herself as fiction as well as fact.

Weaving together fiction, magic and memoir, this remarkable book is a tribute to the age-old tradition of storytelling and a radical step into the future – an invitation to look more closely at our own stories, and to imagine the world anew.

'Enchanting, unexpected and razor-sharp' Kamila Shamsie

'One of the most gifted writers working today' New York Times

In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming' Evening Standard

About the Author

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.