马雷 Mare

基本信息

Publisher：Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Publication date：May 19, 2026

Language：English

Print length：288 pages

ISBN-10：0374617708

ISBN-13：978-0374617707

Item Weight：1 pounds

Dimensions：5.8 x 1.05 x 8.55 inches

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书籍简介

这是一个关于一匹马和爱着它的女人的故事——一部生动活泼的处女作，讲述了非女儿、非母亲、动物和动物的身体，以及我们如何在不经意间找到自由、关爱和社群。

一位女子与丈夫和他们的狗相伴多年。她在线教授儿童书籍，并埋头创作自己的作品。后来，狗去世了，一次就医让她得知自己无法生育，即使她想要孩子。

当一个兼职租借一匹母马的机会摆在她面前时，这似乎是理想的安排，也是儿时愿望的实现——或许还能填补她开始感受到的那种空虚感，无论这种空虚感是否能被诊断出来。她不介意分享；她和隔壁的孩子们共用一个花园，和丈夫一起做家务。照顾这匹马只是每周两天的事情，不会让她深陷其中。

但随着她开始学习骑马，面对不断上涨的医疗费用，每天散步、梳理毛发、梦见那匹马，她对它的爱渐渐变得难以自拔。与这匹母马相处的时光让她重新审视自己肩负的其他责任和人际关系，迫使她直面爱上一个不属于自己的生命意味着什么。艾米莉·霍沃思-布斯的《母马》以温柔的幽默和深刻的洞察力，洋溢着鲜活的生命力和丰富的情感，展现了她令人无法抗拒的文学才华。

The story of a horse and the woman who loves her―a lively first novel of not-daughters and non-mothers; animals and animal bodies; and how we find freedom, care, and community in unexpected places.

For a long time, a woman lives with her husband and their dog. She teaches an online class about children’s books and plods away at a book of her own. Then the dog dies, and a doctor’s visit reveals that she isn’t able to have children, even if she wanted to.

When an opportunity to lease a mare part-time comes her way, it seems like the ideal arrangement and the fulfillment of a childhood wish―perhaps even something to fill the emptiness, diagnosable and otherwise, that she has begun to feel. She has no problem sharing; she shares a garden with the children next door and chores with her husband. The horse will be something to care for, just two days a week, without getting in too deep.

But as she takes up riding lessons, faces mounting medical bills, and walks and brushes and dreams of the horse, her affection starts to become all-consuming. Time spent with the mare casts a light on the rest of her responsibilities and relationships, ultimately forcing her to confront what it means to love a being who does not belong to her. With tender humor and insight, Emily Haworth-Booth’s Mare radiates life and feeling―and introduces an irresistible literary voice.

作者简介

艾米莉·霍沃思-布斯在皇家绘画学院任教，同时也是一位插画家、图像小说家和儿童文学作家，著有三本儿童读物：《禁止黑暗的国王》（曾入围沃特斯通儿童图书奖、卡内基插画奖和克劳斯·弗卢格奖）、《最后的树》和《抗议！》。《母马》是她的成人作品。她与丈夫、爱犬和几匹马居住在德文郡。

Emily Haworth-Booth teaches at the Royal Drawing School and is an illustrator, a graphic novelist, and a children’s author of three books for children: The King Who Banned the Dark (short-listed for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Illustration, and the Klaus Flugge Prize), The Last Tree, and Protest! Mare is her debut book for adults. She lives in Devon with her husband, dog, and several horses.