《橘子不是唯一的水果》是珍妮特·温特森的成名之作。这部小说一举成名,不仅仅因为作者独特的创作手法,小说中深邃的思想寓意和人生哲理也是其倍受推崇的原因。通过对战后英国小镇生活环境的描写,小说触及人与人之间的冷漠,勾画出一幅人间荒原的画面,以此抨击战争给人类带来的灾难,并从女性主义关怀伦理学的角度,结合作者自己的人生哲学,试图为大家解答人类应如何走出困境,寻求一方净土。

Jeanette Winterson is famous for Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, which won its great success not solely for the unique writing technique, but also for the symbolic meaning and life philosophy between the lines. Through describing post-war living environment of British town, touching indifference between people and drawing the outline of earthly wasteland, Winterson criticizes war of having brought disasters to the human being. Meanwhile, on the perspective of feminist caring ethics and combining her own life philosophy, she attempts to answer how to walk away from plight and seek one piece of paradise.