Poor Things

 
　　人生若失去選擇的自由，不能算真正活著！
 
　　古德溫‧貝克斯特醫師的夢想，是利用科學方法打造一個完美伴侶。當年輕女子貝拉不幸溺斃，古德溫成功將她起死回生，意圖使她成為自己的另一半。不過當後輩麥克斯醫師愛上了貝拉，事情出現了令人意想不到的發展…(文／博客來外文館)

　　WINNER OF FIVE BAFTAS, TWO GOLDEN GLOBES, and NOMINATED FOR ELEVEN ACADEMY AWARDS. STARRING EMMA STONE, FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE FAVOURITE
 
　　Winner of the Whitbread Novel Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize
 
　　A life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
 
　　Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realised when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella, who he brings back to life in a Frankenstein-esque feat. But his dream is thwarted by Dr. Archibald McCandless's jealous love for his creation . . .
 
　　But what does Bella think?
 
　　This story of true love and scientific daring whirls the reader from the private operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic casinos, low-life Alexandria and a Parisian bordello, reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church.
 
　　'A magnificently brisk, funny, dirty, brainy book' London Review of Books
 
　　'Visionary, ornate and outrageous' The Independent
 
　　'Witty and delightfully written' New York Times
 
　　'A brilliant marriage of technique, intelligence, and art.' Kirkus Reviews
 
　　'The greatest Scottish novelist since Sir Walter Scott' Anthony Burgess
 
　　'Those who, like me, are unsure if they are Alasdair Gray fans or not, ought to fall on Poor Things with delight, and not just because of the almost excessive beauty of its appearance' Philip Hensher, Spectator