by Jeanette Winterson · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426419651
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«Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?» is the autobiography by Jeanette Winterson, published by Lumen in hardback (264 pages, in Spanish).
Jeanette Winterson reconstructs her childhood and adolescence as the adopted daughter of a deeply religious woman, amid prohibitions, punishments and solitude. The narrative traces her discovery of books, her first love for another girl, her departure for Oxford and the search for her biological mother and for her own happiness.
Translated from the English by Álvaro Abella Villar; the original English «Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?» was published in 2011.
For readers of memoirs and identity narrative, with an interest in LGBTQ+ literature and literary biographies.
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.
