Recently evacuated to the British countryside and with World War Two raging around her, one young girl is struggling to make sense of her life. Then she is given a book of ancient Norse legends and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. Intensely autobigraphical and linguistically stunning, this book is a landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's truly great writers....(展开全部)

A.S.拜雅特，1936年生于英国，1990年凭借近50万字的长篇小说《隐之书》摘获英国布克小说奖，2008年跻身《泰晤士报》评选的“1945年以来英国最重要的50位作家”之列。 主要作品有长篇小说《太阳影子》（1964）、《游戏》（1968）、《花园处子》（1978）、《宁静生活》（1985）、《隐之书》（1990），以及中短篇小说集《夜莺眼中的精灵》等。 她的作品因处于大众阅读和严肃阅读之间，常常引起评论界和读者的剧烈争论。但是，因其文学功底的博大精深、作品架构的宏阔气魄、情节的奇绝、文字的精巧，又常常令人在惊叹之余，纷纷放弃争论。

In the footsteps of Margaret Atwood''s bestselling Penelopiad comes an intensely autobiographical and timely tale from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and The Children''s Book. Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves: what more relevant myth could any modern writer choose...(展开全部)