Description
An unheralded queer classic set in wartime London--"Han Suyin's outstanding achievement . . . her finest novel." (Alison Hennegan)
As a college student in London during the bitterly cold winter of 1944, Red falls in love with her married classmate Mara. Their affair unleashes a physical passion, jealousy, and self-doubt that sweep all her previous experiences aside and will leave her changed forever.
Set against the rubble and austerity of wartime London--barrage balloons overhead, blackout curtains drawn, cafés eking out tins of powdered egg--Winter Love evokes the exhilaration and the peril of living and loving in a city under siege.
First published in 1962, this novella was long overlooked in Han's prolific career. "Probably the best thing she has ever written" (Daily Telegraph), it is also Han Suyin's most unexpected, tender, and stirring work.
Author: Suyin Han
Publisher: McNally Editions
Published: 02/08/2022
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.30h x 4.80w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781946022257
ISBN10: 194602225X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Romance | LGBTQ+ | Lesbian
- Fiction | Historical | 20th Century | World War II & Holocaust
About the Author
Sarah Waters, OBE, was born in Wales. She is the author of six novels, Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith, The Night Watch, The Little Stranger, and The Paying Guests. Her novels have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction and she has won the Betty Trask Award; the Somerset Maugham Award; The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award; the South Bank Show Award for Literature and the CWA Historical Dagger. Sarah was awarded an OBE in 2019 for services to literature in the Queen's Birthday Honours. She lives in London.