by Jeanette Winterson · LUMEN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426421678
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«La mujer de púrpura» is the gothic novel by Jeanette Winterson, published by LUMEN in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Based on a true event, the story takes place in Lancashire during the reign of James I, where several women are accused of witchcraft. Alice Nutter, who earns a living dyeing clothes a dark red, confronts the authorities and keeps a secret for which she is willing to die.
Translated from English by Alejandro Palomas, with original title «The Daylight Gate». Lumen's Narrativa collection. The novel was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award and the RUSA CODES Reading List in 2014.
For readers of historical and gothic fiction looking for a suspenseful story with witchcraft, set in seventeenth-century England.
Jeanette Winterson is an English 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 and sexual identity, and her later ones the relations between humans and technology. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages. She also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.
