![]() ![]() Parts of the novel are set in Venice-Winterson had yet to visit the city when she wrote about it, and the depiction was entirely fictional. ![]() The novel also explores themes like passion, constructions of gender and sexuality, and broader themes common to 1980s and 90s British fiction. Though nominally a historical novel, Winterson takes considerable liberties with the depiction of the historical setting and various strategies for interpreting the historical-making the novel historiographic metafiction. Publication and subsequent sales of the novel allowed Winterson to stop working other jobs, and support herself as a full-time writer. The novel won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. The novel depicts a young French soldier in the Napoleonic army during 1805 as he takes charge of Napoleon's personal larder. The Passion is a 1987 novel by British novelist Jeanette Winterson. ![]()
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