The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester and read English at Oxford, during which time she wrote her first novel, the Whitbread award winning Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. Tanglewreck, Jeanette's first novel for children, was published to great critical acclaim in 2006. In the same year she was awarded an OBE for services to literature.
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眼前的她挤在电话亭里,不成比例的庞大,大于现实中的她。她就如同一个童话故事,一切尺寸都随意且不稳定。她赫然现形。她膨胀延展。直到后来,很久以后,太久以后,我才了解,完全属于她自己的部分是多么微小。那个无人抱起的婴儿。那个依然在她身体里面未曾被怀胎的孩子。
我不知道她为何没有生或者不能生孩子。我知道她领养我是因为想要一个朋友(她没有朋友),也因为我好似一枚射入人间的信号弹——以此说明她的存在——一种标示地点的记号。 她讨厌自己默默无闻。和所有孩子一样,不论是领养的还是亲生的,我必须活出些她未竟的人生。我们要为父母做这件事,我们其实没什么选择。
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