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One Aladdin Two Lamps

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By Jeanette Winterson

Publisher Description

"Enchanting, unexpected and razor-sharp. Jeanette Winterson and Shahrazad are the perfect co-pilots to take us into new worlds on the wings of old stories."—Kamila Shamsie, award-winning author of Home Fire

I can change the story because I am the story.

“One of the most daring and inventive writers of our time” (Elle) weaves together memoir, manifesto, and a feminist reimagining of One Thousand and One Nights in this impassioned exploration of the power of reading

A woman is filibustering for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One Nights to explore new and ancient questions. Who should we trust? Is love the most important thing in the world? Does it matter whether you are honest? What makes us happy?

In her guise as Aladdin—the orphan who changes his world—Jeanette Winterson asks us to reread what we think we know. To look again. Especially to look again at how fiction works in our lives, giving us the courage to change our own narratives and alter endings we wish to subvert. As a young working-class woman, with no obvious future beyond factory work or marriage, Winterson realizes through the power of books that she can read herself as fiction as well as a fact: “I can change the story because I am the story.”

An alluring blend of the ancient and the contemporary, One Aladdin Two Lamps ingeniously explores stories and their vital role in our lives. Weaving together fiction, magic, and memoir, Winterson’s newest is a tribute to the age-old tradition of storytelling and a radical step into the future—an invitation to look closer at our stories, and thereby ourselves, to imagine the world anew.

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One Aladdin Two Lamps Reviews

4.0

Jessi

Created 8 days ago

“„Art is there to focus our attention. When I read, I get out of my current situation and inside a very different situation. It doesn't matter whether I identify or recoil. Whether I agree or I don't.“ My first book by Jeanette Winterson was „why be happy when you can be normal“ and I loved that I took a little biography of the author with me to really understand this new release. „If we simply airlift a human from a terrible place to a better one, the terrible place comes along too, because it is already imprinted in the circuitry of self. To untangle and reset that terribleness is no small task.“ Jeanette takes us on a journey, a journey through one thousand and one nights in the voice of Sharzard who tries to escape her cruel death by a angry sultan. „To me, it's not astonishing that most women could not contribute to society - what's astonishing is how much women have contributed since we've been able to educate our minds, earn our own money, vote in elections and build independent lives.“ While Sharzard tells us stories about journeys, forgiveness and development, we get commentary and little essays by Jeanette looking at our modern times. „But going below the surface, into the deep water that is the substance of these tales, is to meet the same kinds of dilemmas faced in our world, the same judgements, whether reckless or just. The balance between punishment and mercy.“ I enjoyed this little journey and i especially enjoyed Jeanette Wintersons writing.”

Beagle Books

Created 12 days ago

“Jeanette Winterson's One Aladdin Two Lamps, is a luminous and deeply incentive meditation on storytelling. Blending memoir, manifesto and myth, Winterson reimagines One Thousand and One Nights through a contemporary lens - reclaiming Shahrazad's power and asking what stories can mean for us now. This book reminds us that imagination isn't an escape from reality but a force for remaking it, inviting each reader to see their own narrative as something alive, still unfolding, and full of possibility. Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the e-arc.”

Laura Bakker

Created 13 days ago

About Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She is a beloved cultural icon and queer trailblazer who published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and three collections of short stories, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. Her novel Written on the Body was named one of the 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature by the New York Times. Since her innovative and forward-thinking writing about AI in her essay collection 12 Bytes, she speaks at tech conferences around the world. She is professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester and writes a popular Substack, Mind Over Matter. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.