Written in an ominously anonymous first person plural, the novel follows the 12 girls on the swim team at a South African boarding school. They include the jock, the pretty one, the brain, the fat girl, and perhaps most interestingly, the shadowy Sheila Kohler, a storyteller whose tales all "came to the same dramatic finale: violent death..." All of them are in love with the da...(展开全部)

谢拉·科勒（Sheila Kohler），一九四一年生于南非的约翰内斯堡。科勒曾在巴黎长居十五年，获得巴黎大学文理学院的文学学士学位和法国里尔天主教大学的写作艺术硕士学位，后移民美国。科勒的短篇小说《大山》获得欧·亨利文学奖，《一个女孩：故事小说》获得薇拉·凯瑟文学奖并被列入“一九九九年美国最佳短篇小说”，其他作品包括《完美的地方》《美国的奇迹》《在R街上的房屋》《私生子》《成为简爱》等。

Now a major motion picture starring Eva Green and directed by Jordan Scott Abeautiful schoolgirl mysteriously disappears into the South African veld. Forty years later, thirteen members of the missing girl's swimming team gather at their old boarding school for a reunion, and look back to the long, dry weeks leading to Fiamma's disappearance. As teenage memories and emotions ...(展开全部)