The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he was not only a man, but a man’s man.

Except that appearances, as James Morris had known from early childhood, can be deeply misleading. James Morris had known all his conscious life that at heart he was a woman.

Conundrum , one of the earliest books to discuss transsexuality with honesty and without prurience, tells the story of James Morris’s hidden life and how he decided to bring it into the open, as he resolved first on a hormone treatment and, second, on risky experimental surgery that would turn him into the woman that he truly was.

簡·莫裏斯（Jan Morris，1926年—），被歐洲文學界譽為“20世紀最優秀的旅行作傢”。她著作等身，纍計齣版超過三十餘部作品，包括小說、曆史與旅行文學作品。她是英國皇傢文學學會會員，曾獲大英帝國勛章（OBE）。2008年1月，莫裏斯被《泰晤士報》評選為 二戰後英國最偉大的十五名作傢之一。

關於譯者

鬱飛（1928-2014年）譯者、編輯，鬱達夫長子，曾先後編輯齣版十二捲本《鬱達夫全集》，翻譯齣版過《海誓山盟》《拿破侖傳》《馬達哈麗》《她他》等著作。他翻譯完成瞭當年林語堂一心委托鬱達夫翻譯的《瞬息京華》（Moment in Peking），即《京華煙雲》, 至今仍然被文學界公認為是最好的譯本。他的迴憶文章《我在星洲三年》《我的父親鬱達夫》流傳很廣。