THE GIRLS: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 12760006B05238

English Summary/英文概要： ’I have never looked into my sister’s eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to a beguiling moon. I’ve never used an aeroplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that...So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand times as me, to be loved so exponentially’ The girls, Rose and Ruby Darlen, were both joined at the head (craniopagus twins) in a rural farming community in 1974. Abandoned by their frightened teenage mother, they are adopted by the eccentric nurse who attended their birth, and her husband, a gentle immigrant butcher. The sisters attempt to lead a normal life, but can’t help being extraordinary. Now almost thirty, Rose and Ruby are on the verge of becoming the oldest living craniopagus twins in history. Rose has a passion for writing, and The Girls is her version of life as a conjoined twin. Rose and Ruby are attached at the head, but their struggles and triumphs remind us that connection is central to us all.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： “我從來沒有直視過妹妹的眼睛，沒有獨自洗過澡，沒有在夜晚裡獨自一個人站在草地上、朝著那夢幻的月亮張開雙臂；我也從來沒有用過飛機上的洗手間，沒有磨破過一定帽子，也沒有像那樣被親吻過……人生當中我有很多事還從未經歷過，哦，但是我已被深深地眷顧著。不過，如果那些事情還是原來的樣子，我願意再一千次投身做我自己，依舊被它們那麼深沉的愛著。”

1974年，Rose 和 Ruby Darlen這對頭顱連體嬰兒在一個鄉下的農業社區裡出生。她們的未成年母親因受到驚嚇而將她們遺棄，隨後二人被接生她們的古怪護士和她脾氣溫和的屠夫丈夫收養。姐妹兩人一直努力過上正常人的生活，連她們自己都對所取得的進步情不自禁地感到驚歎。現在，姐妹倆即將迎來人生的第30個年頭，而且她們有可能成為世界上獲得最久的連顱雙胞胎。Rose對寫作擁有強烈的渴望，而《女孩們》就是對其生活的真實寫照。Rose 和Ruby的頭顱連在一起，但是她們對命運的掙扎與取得的勝利則告訴我們：親情的連結是我們所有人生活的核心。(from XMM)

Awards/获奖情况：The Girls is now Number 4 on the paperback fiction chart in England. UK Publisher Virago sold 33,800 copies --- actual copies out of the shops -- last week alone, for total actual UK sales to customers now of 91,400. To date 215,400 copies have left the warehouse, and Virago has just reprinted another 50,000.
The Girls is published by Knopf in Canada and Little, Brown in the USA. And in nine translated editions

• Italian translation for The Girls with Mondadori Libri, expected termination December 16, 2015.

• Dutch translation for The Girls with De Bezige Bij, expected termination October 8, 2015.

• French translation for The Girls with Editions De L’Archipel, expected termination September 8, 2015.

• German translation for The Girls with Ullstein Buchverlage Gmbh, expected termination March 5, 2016.

About the Author/作者介绍： Lori Lansens曾是一位功成名就的劇作家。2002年，Lori出版第一本小說Rush Home Road，該書被翻譯成8種語言並在11個國家出版發行，在全世界引起了轟動廣泛的好評。此書入圍了聯邦作家大獎最佳新人作品（Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book）和羅格斯作家信任小說獎（Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize）候選名單，以及2002年全球年度優秀作品100強和國家暢銷書排行榜。。她的第二本部小說The Girls獲得2006年Richard & Judy節目評選的“年度最佳小說”（該書在英國的銷售量超過300，000冊），併入圍奧林威治寬頻小說獎的決賽名單。

Lori Lansens was a successful screenwriter before she burst onto the literary scene in 2002 with her first novel Rush Home Road, which was shortlisted for both the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book and Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. A Globe 100 Best Book of the Year and national bestseller, it has been translated into eight languages and published in eleven countries. Rush Home Road received rave reviews around the world. The Girls, which was a Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year in 2006 (and sold over 300,000 copies in the UK) and a finalist for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction.

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：SOLD(非我们代理）

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：RIGHTS SOLD
World rights excl. Canada:
Little, Brown & Co., 2006
Canada: Knopf, 2005
Italy: Mondadori
UK: Virago
Netherlands: De Bezige Bij
Israel: Modan Publishers
Turkey: Sistem
Germany: Ullstein
Poland: MAG
Brazil: Editora Globo
Taiwan: Commonwealth
Sweden: Bra Bocker
Serbia: Beobooks
Czech: BB Art
Portugal: Casa Das Letras
Lithuania: Alma Littera
France: Editions l’Archipel
Mainland China: Shanghai
Century Publishing
Norway: Juritzen Forlag
France (Book Club): France
Loisirs
French Canada: Editions
Alto
sold 300,000 copies.

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