Words are important to Gretel, always have been. As a child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother, and together they invented a language that was just their own. She hasn’t seen her mother since the age of sixteen, though – almost a lifetime ago – and those memories have faded. Now Gretel works as a lexicographer, updating dictionary entries, which suits her solitary nature.
A phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel’s isolation and throws up questions from long ago. She begins to remember the private vocabulary of her childhood. She remembers other things, too: the wild years spent on the river; the strange, lonely boy who came to stay on the boat one winter; and the creature in the water – a canal thief? – swimming upstream, getting ever closer. In the end there will be nothing for Gretel to do but go back.
Daisy Johnson’s debut novel turns classical myth on its head and takes readers to a modern-day England unfamiliar to most. As daring as it is moving, Everything Under is a story of family and identity, of fate, language, love and belonging that leaves you unsettled and unstrung.

"克劳迪娅和汤姆的短暂邂逅，无疑是当代文学Z令人难忘的事件之一。《月亮虎》千变万化，令人深感满足。这是多年来读过的Z好的小说。——英国《星期日电讯报》
1. 2018年“金布克奖”评选，评委选择了《英国病人》，读者选择了《月亮虎》！
2018年，布克奖50周年评选“金布克奖”，评委选择了《英国病人》，而英国《卫报》组织的读者评选活动，《月亮虎》以得票数高过第二名（石黑一雄《长日留痕》）、第三名（马龙•詹姆斯《七杀简史》）两倍多，高居榜首。《卫报》称：“评委们一贯荒唐至极地蔑视佩内洛普•莱夫利的小说，实际上，她的小说是有史以来Z好的布克奖作品！”
2.英国30年现象级畅销书，英国女性的枕边书
“Z好读的英文小说”中Z有读者缘的作品！与《英国病人》一样动人，与《使女的故事》一样震撼， 30年来，英国女性在厨房、枕边忘情阅读；英国绅士在沙龙、评奖席热烈讨论。
3. 与简•奥斯丁、伍尔夫、J.K.罗琳等共同辉煌的英国女爵士作家
英国文化委员会在《当代作家）称：“佩内洛普•莱夫利作为成人作家出现在文坛上相对而言是柳烟来迟，但很快被公认为是深受欢迎，值得敬重的作家。”在英国读者心中，佩内洛普•莱夫利是继简•奥斯丁、伍尔夫之后，与J.K.罗琳一起辉耀文坛、受到女王封爵的杰出女作家。
4.一部让好莱坞著名编剧心仪又生畏的小说
《英国病人》作者翁达杰说，荣获“金布克奖”，大半归功于电影；而《月亮虎》一直在等待高明的编剧和导演。诺贝尔文学奖得主哈罗德•品特曾说：“我非常非常喜欢这部作品，可是如果想改编成剧本，太难了！”
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"“我正在写一部世界史。”年老体弱的历史学家、畅销书作家克劳迪娅•汉普顿躺在病床上，奄奄一息，当周围的人以一种冷淡的态度照顾她、谈论她时，她的头脑正在精心构思着一部她的“世界史”……
一位女性的个人史何以成为世界史？她和他的相遇，何以成为文坛史上Z难忘的“名场面”？面对生活和命运，女性该如何掌控自己的人生？
《月亮虎》是一部爱情小说，更是一部鸿篇巨制的女性成长小说。全书时间横跨近整个20世纪，内容包罗万象，有惊心动魄的两次世界大战、有异国风情的探索乐趣、有缠绵悱恻的浪漫爱情，也有非同一般的亲子关系问题反映，还有异乎寻常、令人瞠目的兄妹伦理纠葛……"

艺术史学家马克斯•默顿回到了他儿时的海滨小村。如今的他，既要逃避人生新的离愁，又同时要面对往昔记忆的折磨。多年前的那个夏天，格雷斯一家仿佛来自另一个世界。马克斯被格雷斯家的双胞胎姐弟克洛伊和迈尔斯深深吸引，很快卷入了他们的生活——既充满诱惑，却又狂躁不安。接下来的故事却困扰了马克斯的余生……
“《海》运用了约翰•班维尔精准而优美的散文体语言，既包含着对人生确实的妥协，也有对记忆和认知的非同寻常的反思。它完全令人信服，又有着深刻的感动与阐述，毫无疑问，是伟大的语言大师最好的作品之一。《海》对悲痛、记忆和冷静的爱进行了精妙的探讨。在班维尔的作品中，你可以清晰地感觉到乔伊斯、贝克特和纳博科夫的影子。”
——英国布克奖评委会

◇1997年英国布克奖获奖作品
◇印度天才女作家的天才之作
《微物之神》向我们展示了一个既平凡又神奇的世界，洛伊是点石成金的魔术师，琐碎无序的生活在她笔下连接起来后立刻熠熠生辉。我有一个再读书目，每隔几年重读一次，《微物之神》是其中的一本。——作家余华
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《微物之神 》从表姐苏菲的葬礼开始，讲述了印度南部小村庄中一对孪生兄妹瑞海尔和艾斯沙曲折的童年经历，揭开他们的母亲阿慕与木匠维鲁沙的爱情秘密，以及在这个社会等级森严的环境里，两个孩子是如何在无意中被诱导着参与毁灭了这一段凄美爱情，并为此付出了沉重的代价。
全书以抽丝剥茧的方式，通过一对双胞胎的人生牵引出一个家庭，甚至一个民族的卑微与苦难，字里行间处处流淌着深沉古老而又欲哭无泪的悲伤。作者通过多角度的叙事手法，清晰地勾勒出两条跨越数十年的故事线，完整呈现出一部既充满琐碎细节而又饱含悲剧色彩的家族史。

The Sea, the Sea is a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a self-satisfied playwright and director as he begins to write his memoirs. Played out against a vividly rendered landscape and filled with allusions to myth and magic, Murdoch's novel exposes the jumble of motivations that drive her characters - the human vanity, jealousy, and lack of compassion behind the disguises they present to the world. Charles Arrowby, its central figure, decides to withdraw from the world and dwell in seclusion in a house by the sea. Whilst there, by an extraordinary coincidence he encounters his first love, Mary Hartley Fitch, whom he has not seen since his love affair with her as an adolescent. Although she is almost unrecognisable in old age, and totally outside his theatrical world, he becomes obsessed by her, idealizing his former relationship with her and attempting to persuade her to elope with him. His inability to recognise the egotism and selfishness of his own romantic ideals is at the heart of the novel. After the farcical and abortive kidnapping of Mrs. Fitch by Arrowby, he is left to mull over her rejection in an enjoyably self-obsessional and self-aggrandising manner over the space of several chapters. "How much, I see as I look back, I read into it all, reading my own dream text and not looking at the reality... Yes of course I was in love with my own youth... Who is one's first love?"

这是一部结构奇巧、故事里套故事的小说。小说有两个女主人公，一个是劳拉，小说一开始就在车祸中死去；另一个是她的姐姐艾丽丝，生活在死者的阴影中，回忆着 快被湮没的往事。有关盲刺客的故事是劳拉生前写的，描述了在动荡的20世纪30年代，一个富家小姐和一个在逃的穷小伙子的恋情。同时，这对恋人想象出了发 生在另一个星球上的故事。这个虚构的故事里充满了爱、牺牲与背叛。而现实生活中也是如此，艾丽丝嫁给了富商理查德，在外人看来，这是一桩美满的婚姻，殊不知，理查德将魔爪伸向了小姨子劳拉，于是，劳拉的车祸令人产生了怀疑……