--- product_id: 62620911 title: "The Stone Gods" price: "₹ 3117" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/62620911-the-stone-gods store_origin: IN region: India --- # The Stone Gods **Price:** ₹ 3117 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Stone Gods - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 3117 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/62620911-the-stone-gods) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Buy The Stone Gods by Winterson, Jeanette from desertcart's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction. Review: What will we do to our environment? And still JW writes something strangely beautiful. - Taking a hard look at ourselves adrift a deep blue pool of imagination. And a page turner too. Take a few deep breaths as you go in. Review: Thoughtful if a bit sentimental - If you're thinking about buying this book, you're going to get no help at all in your decision-making from its jacket. This book sports not a single review quotation. Not on the front cover nor on the back cover. Not in support of the blurb on the front flap nor after the biography on the back flap. And not on any of the eight blank pages at the end of the book that make you think there'll be another twist to the story when in fact it's finished (don't you just hate that?). Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods needs, it seems, no introduction, no recommendation, no testimonial. Jeanette Winterson is Literature, so the newspaper reviewers tell me. They also tell me that this story belongs to that category known as sci-fi. Does it? That's news to me. I don't do sci-fi. If it is sci-fi, it's in the tradition of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale rather than Frank Herbert's Dune. The novel comes in three parts. Three apocalyptic scenarios. The same story; the story of how the human race can bring about its environment's complete destruction, without thinking about it until it's too late. Scary stuff. Depressing stuff too. There are also three love stories - all rather too sentimental for my taste. Too many long sentences weaving poetically around at 11 at night (the only time this tired mother-of-two gets to read) do me no good at all. But then there are two 'hidden' love stories - the love a tiny baby has for its mother and the love we all have for Earth, our home - which really began to hit some vein of truth. Although this will not rate as my favourite book of all time, it did make me think. About climate change, about rampant consumerism and where it might lead us. About what it would take to shake the West out of its blind adoration of the great god Economic Growth, and about what might happen if it's already too late. It also got me thinking about extinction. Not just the extinction of the dinosaurs, nor of hundreds of species of plants and animals each day, but my own extinction, and by extension the extinction of the planet. It made me feel what it might be like to know for certain there is no hope. No life after death. No new blue planet to migrate to in silver spaceships when we're done destroying this one. And the book made me cry. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 499,810 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 1,751 in Science Fiction History & Criticism 2,526 in Science Fiction Short Stories 2,713 in Space Exploration | | Customer reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars (400) | | Dimensions | 13 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm | | ISBN-10 | 014103260X | | ISBN-13 | 978-0141032603 | | Item weight | 185 g | | Language | English | | Print length | 256 pages | | Publication date | 3 July 2008 | | Publisher | Penguin | ## Images ![The Stone Gods - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61jt7JoHAaL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What will we do to our environment? And still JW writes something strangely beautiful. *by K***R on 22 September 2019* Taking a hard look at ourselves adrift a deep blue pool of imagination. And a page turner too. Take a few deep breaths as you go in. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thoughtful if a bit sentimental *by L***B on 18 February 2008* If you're thinking about buying this book, you're going to get no help at all in your decision-making from its jacket. This book sports not a single review quotation. Not on the front cover nor on the back cover. Not in support of the blurb on the front flap nor after the biography on the back flap. And not on any of the eight blank pages at the end of the book that make you think there'll be another twist to the story when in fact it's finished (don't you just hate that?). Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods needs, it seems, no introduction, no recommendation, no testimonial. Jeanette Winterson is Literature, so the newspaper reviewers tell me. They also tell me that this story belongs to that category known as sci-fi. Does it? That's news to me. I don't do sci-fi. If it is sci-fi, it's in the tradition of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale rather than Frank Herbert's Dune. The novel comes in three parts. Three apocalyptic scenarios. The same story; the story of how the human race can bring about its environment's complete destruction, without thinking about it until it's too late. Scary stuff. Depressing stuff too. There are also three love stories - all rather too sentimental for my taste. Too many long sentences weaving poetically around at 11 at night (the only time this tired mother-of-two gets to read) do me no good at all. But then there are two 'hidden' love stories - the love a tiny baby has for its mother and the love we all have for Earth, our home - which really began to hit some vein of truth. Although this will not rate as my favourite book of all time, it did make me think. About climate change, about rampant consumerism and where it might lead us. About what it would take to shake the West out of its blind adoration of the great god Economic Growth, and about what might happen if it's already too late. It also got me thinking about extinction. Not just the extinction of the dinosaurs, nor of hundreds of species of plants and animals each day, but my own extinction, and by extension the extinction of the planet. It made me feel what it might be like to know for certain there is no hope. No life after death. No new blue planet to migrate to in silver spaceships when we're done destroying this one. And the book made me cry. ### ⭐⭐⭐ Bit disappointing *by K***D on 12 September 2014* The first novel I’d read by JW. Thought the section about Easter Island was superb, but in other places the book resembled a polemic. I’m not saying I’d never revisit this author, but I won’t be rushing to her other work. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.in/products/62620911-the-stone-gods](https://www.desertcart.in/products/62620911-the-stone-gods) --- *Product available on Desertcart India* *Store origin: IN* *Last updated: 2026-05-10*