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 unus...
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.
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 a...
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.
3.5/5 An almost DNF book because characters stop evolving at some point. The writing is elegant as usual but the symbolism is a little too heavy for my liking. 比起作者最新那部fiction较为逊色
4 有用 Jacky 2017-01-22 10:31:16
这段不健康的母女羁绊关系,也是必须要女儿清醒的认识来做出决断。很简单的语言和句子,有时候却表达出很深刻的情愫来。这就是作家的厉害的地方了。很多意象的所指,毒水母,Ingrid的针线相系的爱,父亲的抛弃,自我的缺失等等。总体来说还是不错的阅读体验。
0 有用 普宁困意 2023-07-04 15:50:39 辽宁
去大连玩 旅途准备这本 结果持续失焦中…
0 有用 betteroblivion 2021-01-28 23:29:11
3.5/5 An almost DNF book because characters stop evolving at some point. The writing is elegant as usual but the symbolism is a little too heavy for my liking. 比起作者最新那部fiction较为逊色
1 有用 Lau迪 2017-01-09 13:20:21
一般.
0 有用 午夜餐车老板 2022-09-04 17:52:16 广东
在深圳图书馆借了本老年人字体的版本,还蛮好看的,喜欢喜欢 补:高三上gw课自选了这本,越看越喜欢。