(加) 埃米莉·圣约翰·曼德尔Emily St. John Mandel 埃米莉·圣约翰·曼德尔1979年出生于不列颠哥伦比亚省西海岸的一个小岛，18岁时离家远赴多伦多舞蹈学院学习现代舞，毕业后成为职业舞蹈演员。目前与丈夫生活在纽约。 曼德尔2002年开始文学创作，短篇作品曾被许多选集收录。2009年起，她陆续创作发表了三部长篇小说《蒙特利尔的最后一夜》《歌手的枪》和《洛拉的四重奏》，均列入美国独立书商协会推荐榜单。 曼德尔2014年的作品《第十一站》备受瞩目，不仅被美国亚马逊网站列为当年度最佳科幻图书，而且入围了美国国家图书奖的决选名单，并在2015年夺得了由英国科幻协会颁发的阿瑟·C.克拉克奖。这部作品也将改编成电影登上大银幕。

柳美里（Yu Miri） 韩裔日本作家，1968年生于日本神奈川县，1993年以《鱼之祭》获岸田国士戏剧奖，1996年以《家梦已远》获泉镜花文学奖、野间文艺新人奖，1997年以《家族电影》获芥川奖，成为日本极少数三十岁之前获得此奖的作家之一。《JR上野站公园口》获 2020 年美国国家图书奖（翻译文学类）。2011年日本福岛发生地震和海啸之后，她搬到了那里并开了一家书店。

柳美里（Yu Miri） 韩裔日本作家，1968年生于日本神奈川县，1993年以《鱼之祭》获岸田国士戏剧奖，1996年以《家梦已远》获泉镜花文学奖、野间文艺新人奖，1997年以《家族电影》获芥川奖，成为日本极少数三十岁之前获得此奖的作家之一。《JR上野站公园口》获 2020 年美国国家图书奖（翻译文学类）。2011年日本福岛发生地震和海啸之后，她搬到了那里并开了一家书店。

Neighbors saw Enoch Wallace as an ageless hermit, striding across his untended farm as he had done for over a century, still carrying the gun with which he had served in the Civil War. They must never know that inside his unchanging house, he met and conversed with a host of unimaginable friends from the farthest stars. More than a hundred years before, an alien being named Uly...(展开全部)

As a work of post-tsunami literature and a protest against the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, this novel is of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply felt depiction of the lives of Japan's most vulnerable people. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences t...(展开全部)

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Cr...(展开全部)

The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the centre of its own bewildering world. Humans and mutants and arcane races throng the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the rivers are sluggish with unnatural effluent, and factories and foundries pound into the night. For more than a thousand years, the parliament and its brutal militia have ruled over a vast array of workers and art...(展开全部)

A WORLD INSIDE All Hiroto has ever known is a life on a tiny coastal speck of Japan. Much of the country has been swallowed by Yokohama Station, a mysterious, ever-growing series of buildings that's been around for as long as anyone can remember. The few who live outside its many entrances have never seen Inside and know only rumors and legends of the station's interior. That a...(展开全部)

As a work of post-tsunami literature and a protest against the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, this novel is of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply felt depiction of the lives of Japan's most vulnerable people. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences t...(展开全部)