The Winter’s Tale is one of Shakespeare’s “late plays.” It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of extraordinary events, father and daughter, and eventually mother too, are reunited.

In The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson’s cover version of The Winter’s Tale, we move from London, a city reeling after the 2008 financial crisis, to a storm-ravaged American city called New Bohemia. Her story is one of childhood friendship, money, status, technology and the elliptical nature of time. Written with energy and wit, this is a story of the consuming power of jealousy on the one hand, and redemption and the enduring love of a lost child on the other.

作者简介

珍妮特·温特森，1959年生于曼彻斯特，五个月大时被康斯坦斯·温特森和约翰·W. 温特森夫妇收养，并在伊利姆的五旬节派教堂接受传教士的培养。温特森十六岁时对自己的同志身份觉醒并离家，后来进入牛津大学学习。1985年，处女作、半自传体小说《橘子不是唯一的水果》一举荣获惠特布雷德首作奖，温特森成为英国文坛一颗耀眼的新星。她的作品先后获得约翰·卢埃林·里斯奖、E. M. 福斯特奖、兰布达文学奖等众多文学大奖，她也因文学上的贡献荣获大英帝国勋章（OBE）。2012年，她继科尔姆·托宾担任曼彻斯特大学的创意写作教授。

温特森的作品主要探索了肉体和想象之间的边界、性别特性和性向认同等主题，代表作有小说《橘子不是唯一的水果》《给樱桃以性别》《激情》《写在身体上》《苹果笔记本》《守望灯塔》，自传《正常就好，何必快乐？》等。

译者简介

于是，著名青年文学翻译家、作家。著有短篇小说集《赌场没有钟》《祥云弥渡》。译有《橘子不是唯一的水果》、《时间之间》，以及斯蒂芬·金、保罗·奥斯特、恰克·帕拉尼克、威廉·特雷弗等作家的小说、散文和非虚构作品二十余部。