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.

作者簡介

珍妮特·溫特森，1959年生於曼徹斯特，五個月大時被康斯坦斯·溫特森和約翰·W. 溫特森夫婦收養，並在伊利姆的五旬節派教堂接受傳教士的培養。溫特森十六歲時對自己的同誌身份覺醒並離傢，後來進入牛津大學學習。1985年，處女作、半自傳體小說《橘子不是唯一的水果》一舉榮獲惠特布雷德首作奬，溫特森成為英國文壇一顆耀眼的新星。她的作品先後獲得約翰·盧埃林·裏斯奬、E. M. 福斯特奬、蘭布達文學奬等眾多文學大奬，她也因文學上的貢獻榮獲大英帝國勛章（OBE）。2012年，她繼科爾姆·托賓擔任曼徹斯特大學的創意寫作教授。

溫特森的作品主要探索瞭肉體和想象之間的邊界、性彆特性和性嚮認同等主題，代錶作有小說《橘子不是唯一的水果》《給櫻桃以性彆》《激情》《寫在身體上》《蘋果筆記本》《守望燈塔》，自傳《正常就好，何必快樂？》等。

譯者簡介

於是，著名青年文學翻譯傢、作傢。著有短篇小說集《賭場沒有鍾》《祥雲彌渡》。譯有《橘子不是唯一的水果》、《時間之間》，以及斯蒂芬·金、保羅·奧斯特、恰剋·帕拉尼剋、威廉·特雷弗等作傢的小說、散文和非虛構作品二十餘部。