Margaret Drabble A Summer Bird-Cage-夏日的鸟笼

作者：Margaret Drabble

书名：A Summer Bird-Cage《夏日的鸟笼》

中文简介：一位知识女性莎拉以全优成绩毕业于牛津，却对未来满怀疑虑，心中全无美好的憧憬。姐姐露易丝婚后虽然生活富足安定，但缺乏真情实爱，亦无自己的职业，只能靠隐秘的婚外恋来维持自己空虚的感情生活。这使莎拉对世俗婚姻产生了深深的恐惧，久久犹疑不定，驻足不前。她反复地问自己：“嫁个学究还是当个学究？”，书中莎拉对婚姻的审视，即对婚姻本质的追问。

英文简介：Sarah had come home from Paris to be a bridesmaid for her sister Louise. When a child, Sarah had adored her elder sister, but Louise had grown up to be an arrogant, selfish, cold and extravagant woman. She was also breath-takingly beautiful. The man she was to marry, Stephen Halifax, was a successful novelist, very rich and snobbishly unpleasant. From Sarah's first night at home she began to question Louise's motives in this loveless match.

A Summer Bird-Cage is the story of Louise's marriage as seen through Sarah's eyes. It is also the story of a year in Sarah's own life. She is a young woman, intelligent and attractive, just down from Oxford, but completly at loose ends without close friends or a lover. What she discovers about herself is as fascinating as what she discovers about love, infidelity and her sister Louise.