丹麦女孩 (2000)

《丹麦女孩》（英语：The Danish Girl）是由美国作家大卫‧埃博雪夫所写的小说，2000年由维京出版社在美国出版，Allen & Unwin出版公司在澳大利亚出版。

奖项

《丹麦女孩》获得美国艺术暨文学学会的罗森塔尔基金会奖和Lambda Literary Award。本书也是提普奇奖、纽约公共图书馆幼狮奖和美国图书馆协会奖的决赛作品，以及是纽约时报著名书籍作品。

改编电影

小说被改编成电影，由汤姆·霍珀执导，埃迪·雷德梅尼饰演莉莉·艾尔伯、艾丽西亚·维坎德饰演格尔达·韦格纳、马提亚斯·修奈尔饰演Hans Axgil，以及本·惠肖饰演Henrik。

The Danish Girl is a novel by American writer David Ebershoff, published in 2000 by the Viking Press in the United States and Allen & Unwin in Australia.

The novel is a fictionalized account of the life of Lili Elbe, one of the first transgender women to undergo sex reassignment surgery.

The author has stated that the novel does not try to tell a true story. Ebershoff not only imagined most of what he wrote about Elbe's inner life, but also fabricated all of the other characters in the book, most important among them Wegener's blue-blooded American-born wife, Gerda Wegener.

In 2015, The Danish Girl was adapted into a film, directed by Tom Hooper.

Plot

The story takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark. Lili Elbe (then presenting as male and using her birth name) is happily married to her wife, Gerda Wegener. Lili was raised with her best friend Hans. Gerda was raised in California with her twin brother Carlisle. Gerda eventually moved to Denmark and first met Lili at the Royal Academy before unfortunately separating due to World War I. During their separation, Gerda marries another man and has a child, with the child unfortunately dying at birth and her husband dying of tuberculosis. Gerda moves back to Denmark and marries Lili. The couple become painters; Lili specializes in painting landscapes and Gerda specializes in painting portraits.

One day, Gerda's friend Anna Fonsmark cancels her scheduled painting session with Gerda. Gerda, needing to have the painting finished as soon as possible, requests Lili to model in Anna's place. The session is interrupted when Anna suddenly enters their home, and Anna is the first to give Lili her new name.

Some time later, Lili and Gerda are invited to the annual Artists' Ball, and Gerda convinces Lili to wear a dress again. During the ball, Lili meets a man named Henrik Sandahl, and the two start a short-lived relationship, which Gerda discourages, fearing that if Lili does not tell Henrik of her marriage and her assigned birth gender, she would be hurting him by deceiving him.

Lili then starts having many nosebleeds and stomachaches. Gerda makes Lili visit a doctor named Dr. Hexler. Gerda's true intentions, however are actually to see if there is a tumor developing in Lili's pelvis; Gerda believes that if a tumor were indeed there, it might be the cause of the nosebleeds, stomachaches, and psychological problems. Hexler performs an X-ray on Lili and sees that there is no tumor; however, he tells Gerda that he discourages Lili from expressing her femininity.

Gerda starts to paint Lili more often, and these paintings spark popularity for Gerda. However, Lili becomes even more confused about who she truly is. Later on, Gerda meets Doctor Alfred Bolk. Bolk is interested in helping Lili undergo a vaginoplasty, to which Lili agrees. Bolk transfers to Dresden and Lili soon follows.

The first operation removes Lili's testicles, but during the operation, Bolk reveals that Lili was supposed to have undeveloped ovaries in her body the whole time, which he discloses to Gerda and restores in a succeeding operation.

Lili and Gerda then return to Denmark. Lili and Henrik fall in love. Henrik proposes to Lili and Hans asks Gerda to move with him to the United States. Bolk manages to contact Lili and tells her of a final operation, which will give Lili a uterus, allowing her to give birth. Lili tells Gerda of the operation; however, Gerda disapproves, as she finds it to be "too dangerous." Nonetheless, Lili is determined to get the operation and eventually does.

The surgery, however, is a failure, as Lili develops an infection shortly after she gets the operation. Whether Lili lives or dies is unclear.

Awards

The Danish Girl won the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Lambda Literary Award. It was also a finalist for the Tiptree Award, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, and an American Library Association Award, and was a New York Times Notable Book.