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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: Whom should we trust? Is love the most important thing? Does honesty matter? What makes us happy? Posing as Aladdin—the orphan who changes his world—Jeanette Winterson asks us to re-examine what we think we know, to look again at how fiction works in our lives, giving us the courage to change our own narratives and alter endings. 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."
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"With its heartfelt evocation of the power of literature, One Aladdin Two Lamps is a passionate hymn to the supreme values of human imagination, generosity and love."
"More unorthodox is Winterson's embrace of big tech's potential to redefine selfhood ..."
"There are bits about AI and Sam Altman, a few affecting set pieces on Christianity, then she lapses into clichés ..."
"An ardent defense of storytelling."
"The result is an often insightful but finally unsuccessful book that falters under its own arguments."
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