The slender story is sometimes lost in the strange brew of myth, fact and modernism, but British author Winterson's assured proseparticularly her stunning evocations of a glacial Russia and a decadent nighttime Venicedoes much to unify her unsettling tale. Passiondescribed by the manipulative Villanelle as ""somewhere between fear and sex''leads Henri on a desperate quest away from his beliefs and into an emotional labyrinth from which he may be unable to return.
Disillusioned and longing to escape a desolate posting in the Russian winter, the young man meets and falls in love with Villanelle, a mysterious Venetian hoping to retrieve her own heart, which has literally been stolen and imprisoned by a noblewoman she once loved.
Henri is a naive French soldier who works in Bonaparte's kitchen and worships the conqueror until his starving and diseased army begins to crumble. In Jeanette Wintersons The Passion the reader is also lead into a fantastic world (just like in Heroes and Villains) where he or she has to abandon reason. The Passion By: Jeanette Winterson Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues, Daniel Pirrie Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins 4.6 (67 ratings) Try for 0. This arresting, elegant novel by the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit uses Napoleon's Europe as the setting for a tantalizing surrealistic romance between an observer of history and a creature of fantasy.
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