Possession: A Romance
Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. Possession won the Booker Prize.
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- ISBN-13
- 9780099800408
- Topics
- Literary mystery and academic detectionRomantic love across timeSecrets and hidden histories
Awards
- The Booker PrizeWonMajor(1990)
Other awarded books from A. S. Byatt
- The Children's Book (2009)1 win · 16 score
- The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye (2018)1 win · 5 score
- Elementals (2007)0 wins · 2 score
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