Description
In this audacious blend of memoir, manifesto, and feminist reimagining, Jeanette Winterson—one of our most inventive contemporary writers—cracks open the legendary tale of Shahrazad from One Thousand and One Nights to explore timeless questions about trust, love, honesty, and happiness. Drawing parallels between Shahrazad's nightly storytelling as an act of survival and her own transformation through the power of reading, Winterson invites us to recognize ourselves as both fact and fiction, capable of rewriting our own narratives. Through the guise of Aladdin, the orphan who changes his world, she demonstrates how stories give us the courage to alter endings we wish to subvert and to imagine ourselves anew. This enchanting and razor-sharp exploration weaves together ancient wisdom and contemporary insight, celebrating the vital role that fiction plays in our lives while challenging us to look closer at the stories we tell ourselves. An alluring tribute to the age-old tradition of storytelling and a radical step into the future, One Aladdin Two Lamps is an invitation to reread what we think we know and to transform our own worlds through the magic of narrative.
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paperback
Grove Press
Published Jan 1, 2026
ISBN: 9780802167118
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First Published
2026
Language
en
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