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)

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)

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)

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)

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the da...(展开全部)

(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。

あなたは得体の知れない混成都市を歩くことになる！ 21歳で上京し、60年間ここに暮らして日々レンズを向け続けたぼくですら、その正体をいまだつかみきれていない。新宿も、池袋も、渋谷も、上野も、浅草も、銀座も、世界に二つとない特徴的な街を形成している。この本には、あの日のときめきを追い求め、路地に這い蹲るようにして彷徨き続けた末、ぼくなりの視点で捉えた、現代の東京の街並みを載せた。もし、この本と、そしてカメラを手に、この街を巡る人がいるならば、どうかそれぞれの視点で、興味の赴くままに、活写してほしい。

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)