《因为它味苦,因为它是我的心》是美国女作家乔伊斯·卡洛斯·欧茨最近出版的第20部长篇小说。此书颇得读者和评论界的好评,有的评论家还把它誉为欧茨的代表作。小说写的是两个十多岁的少年男女在冷酷的城市里邂逅的故事。小说的背景是纽约州北部的一个小城市,时间是1956年即民权运动萌芽之前。情节由一个杀人犯推 “Because it tastes bitter because it is my heart” is the 20th novel recently published by American woman writer Joyce Carlos Oates. This book quite readers and critics praise, some critics also put it as Oz’s masterpiece. Written by the novel is the story of two teenage boys and girls met in the cold city. The novel’s background is a small city in northern New York, before the onset of civil rights in 1956. Plot pushed by a murderer