This is a love story and, like all Winterson's novels, a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman, Louise, and the narrator is her lover, gender undeclared. The affair intensifies beyond anything either of the lovers has ever known or hoped for. And as they dissect their passion and longing, Jeanette Winterson traces the topography of desire.

The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) must encompass desire alongside electromagnetism and gravity. One starry night on a boat in the mid-Atlantic, Alice, a brilliant English theoretical physicist, begins an affair with Jove, her remorselessly seductive American counterpart. But Jove is married. When Alice confronts his wife, Stella, she swiftly falls in love with her, with consequences that are by turns horrifying, comic, and arousing. Vaulting from Liverpool to New York, from alchemy to string theory, and from the spirit to the flesh, Gut Symmetries is a thrillingly original novel by England's most flamboyantly gifted young writer. "Winterson is unmatched among contemporary writers in her ability to conjure up new-world wonder...A beautiful, stirring and brilliant story."--Times Literary Supplement "Dazzling for [its] intelligence and inventiveness...[Winterson] is possessed of a masterly command of the language and a truly pliant imagination."--Elle "One of our most brilliant, visionary storytellers."--San Francisco Chronicle

1985年惠特布莱德奖获奖作品
英国英语系学生必读的经典读物
入选《卫报》死前必读的1000本小说
改编成BBC热门剧集，荣获戛纳最佳剧本等多项大奖
讲述每个人都会有的爱、悲伤和愤怒
一部温暖、机智、有趣的成长小说
张悦然作序推荐 《鲤》杂志首次参与策划
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二十年来我读到的最有意思的作家。
——戈尔•维达尔（美国作家）
珍妮特•温特森是这类题材的大师，一个极具天赋的作家。
——穆里尔•斯帕克（英国作家）
她不会装腔作势，只想坦诚地书写她想写的，我认为这很有启发性。
——萨拉•沃特斯（英国作家）
《橘子不是唯一的水果》无疑是温特森小说世界的入口，故事从这里开始。而所有的故事，其实也都在这里了。与她的其他小说一样，这是本聪明而有趣的小说。
——张悦然（作家）

《灯塔守望》是“2l世纪年度最佳外国小说”评选中2004年度英国文学入选作品。女主人公银儿是一个孤儿，飘无定所，由瞎子普尤收养。普尤是拉斯角的灯塔看守人，行踪神秘，给银儿讲述了许多跨越时空的旅行故事。这些故事围绕巴比·达克展开，他是一个十九世纪的牧师，一生过着一半光明一半黑暗的生活。达克的故事在银儿看来，是她自己穿越黑暗的一张地图，与她自己的故事交织在一起，最终通向了爱情，成就了一个娓娓动听的爱情故事。本书用诗一般的语言，讲故事的手法，创造了一个现代寓言。