17世纪，英国查尔斯二世时期，在臭气熏天的泰晤士河旁边生活着一个女巨人。她丑陋、孤独，只和很多狗生活在一起。有一天，她在河岸边看到了一个弃儿，便将他收养，并给他一条河流的名字，叫约旦。约旦和他的母亲生活在一起，一直遇到了国王的园艺师。
园艺师将他们带到了温布尔顿，让约旦学习园艺。后来，约旦追随园艺师前往百慕大群岛，一个据说离天堂最近的地方，一路上遇到了很多奇怪的人和事情：十二个跳舞的公主，每个公主都在讲述着她与其丈夫的故事；遇到一个视爱为瘟疫的村子，因为爱，所有的人都死去，只剩下一个僧侣与妓女。与此同时，约旦的母亲在保皇党的鼓动下，对杀死国王的清教徒进行疯狂的复仇……
“The marvelous and the horrific, the mythic and the mundane overlap and intermingle in this wonderfully inventive novel.” —The New York Times
Winner of the E. M. Forster Award
In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and grows up to travel the globe like Gulliver—though he finds that the most curious oddities come from his own mind. The spiraling tale leads the reader from discussions on the nature of time to Jordan’s fascination with journeys concealed within other journeys, all with a dizzying speed that jumps from epiphany to shimmering epiphany.
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Sexing the Cherry is “a mixture of The Arabian Nights touched by the philosophical form of Milan Kundera and told with the grace of Italo Calvino” (San Francisco Chronicle).
“Those who care for fiction that is both idiosyncratic and beautiful will want to read anything [Winterson] writes.” —The Washington Post Book World
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