Publication
Grove Press (1997), 176 pages
Collections
Awards
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Winner — 1988)
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize (Winner — 1987)
Content and Summary Info
Bisexual Content: A main character (cisgender woman) has/has had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.
Publisher's Summary: Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, and Villanelle, the daughter of a Venetian boatmen, who has lost her heart to a married noblewoman and who wanders the Western world to retrieve it.