半自傳性的爭議作，珍奈．溫特森23歲撰寫的首部小說
一舉奪下英國惠布瑞特首作小說獎（Whitbread Award for Best First Novel）
探討信仰、同性戀與禁果隱喻的精湛作品
《柳橙不是唯一的水果》是珍奈．溫特森於一九八五年出版的第一本書。她以半自傳口吻，述說被信仰虔誠的家庭收養的女孩佳奈，雖然養母在她成長過程中日日以聖經陶冶，週週帶著上教堂，她卻無法違背本心，依舊愛上另一個女孩，並因此遭教會懲罰，被母親逐出家門。但是，在遠離那個封閉的小社會後，她才明白，世上不只有一種選擇，就如總是給她柳橙的養母，在重逢時釋然地說――
說到底，柳橙不是唯一的水果。
Jeanette Winterson’s extraordinary career began at the age of twenty-five with the publication of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. An international bestseller and winner of the prestigious Whitbread Award for Best First Fiction, it is considered a classic of contemporary literature and taught widely around the world, in courses ranging from core undergraduate classes to women’s studies and queer studies.
Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial north of England. Her youth is spent embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household collapses. Jeanette’s insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mind—and on reporting them with wit and passion—makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an extraordinary passage into adulthood.
