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Passionen
by Jeanette Winterson
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During the Napoleonic wars, Henri leaves a French village to serve in the emperor’s kitchens, while Villanelle, a Venetian boatman’s daughter, navigates a city of gambling, shifting identities and dangerous desires. Their stories converge in a world where historical reality admits impossible things without losing its physical immediacy. Love, devotion and obsession become competing ways of surrendering control. Moving between military campaigns and Venice’s elusive waterways, this compact novel combines an adventurous story with fable, dark comedy and a searching interest in who gets to possess another person’s heart.
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