Prisoner of Love is Jean Genet's final book, which was posthumously published from manuscripts he was working on at the time of his death.

Translated into English by Barbara Bray and with an introduction by Edmund White it was published by Picador.

[4] According to Edmund White, "For a book about one of the most ideologically heated conflicts of modern times, Prisoner of Love is curiously cool and unpolemical.

"[2] For the Los Angeles Reader, it is "An undeniable masterpiece, written with assurance and the fine white heat of lifelong rage.

"[3] Prisoner of Love was staged as a performance piece by JoAnne Akalaitis at the New York Theatre Workshop from 12 May to 25 June 1995, with an original score composed by Philip Glass.