Hot Milk

Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their "intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination", including PAX, HERESIES for the Royal Shakespeare Company, CLAM, CALL BLUE JANE, SHINY NYLON, HONEY BABY MIDDLE ENGLAND, PUSHING THE PRINCE INTO DENMARK and MACBETH-FALSE MEMORIES, some of which are published in LEVY: PLAYS 1 (Methuen)Deborah wrote and published her first novel BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS (Vintage), when she was 27 years old. The experience of not having to give her words to a director, actors and designer to interpret, was so exhilarating, she wrote a few more. These include, SWALLOWING GEOGRAPHY, THE UNLOVED (Vintage) and BILLY and GIRL (Bloomsbury). She has always written across a number of art forms (see Bookworks and Collaborations with visual artists) and was Fellow in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1989-1991.

出版者:Hamish Hamilton

作者:Deborah Levy

页数:224

出版时间:2016-3-24

价格:GBP 12.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780241146545

图书标签:小说FICTION英国文学2016布克奖短名单#原版英文原版小说西方文学

A richly mythic, colour-saturated tale of mothers and daughters from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Swimming Home.

Two women arrive in a Spanish village - a dreamlike place caught between the desert and the ocean - seeking medical advice and salvation. One of the strangers suffers from a mysterious illness: spontaneous paralysis confines her to a wheelchair, her legs unusable. The other, her daughter Sofia, has spent years playing the reluctant detective in this mystery, struggling to understand her mother's illness.

Surrounded by the oppressive desert heat and the mesmerising figures who move through it, Sofia waits while her mother undergoes the strange programme of treatments invented by Dr Gomez. Searching for a cure to a defiant and quite possibly imagined disease, ever more entangled in the seductive, mercurial games of those around her, Sofia finally comes to confront and reconcile the disparate fragments of her identity.

Hot Milk is a labyrinth of violent desires, primal impulses, and surreally persuasive internal logic. In this dazzling new novel, Deborah Levy explores the rhythms of female rage and sexuality and the ways in which children and parents are both debtors and creditors.

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"Love explodes near her like a war but she never admits she started it."

整本书的叙述方式恍惚且梦幻… 阅读过程里好像被拉进了某种互助小组。“我对她的爱就像一把斧子，她从我手中夺走，并威胁要用它砍去自己的双脚。”

又是一个不错的夏天. 肆意的水母 慵懒的沙滩 多变的情人 莫名其妙的医生一家 难以琢磨的母上大人...

"Love explodes near her like a war but she never admits she started it."

又是一个不错的夏天. 肆意的水母 慵懒的沙滩 多变的情人 莫名其妙的医生一家 难以琢磨的母上大人...