Jagannath

瑞典小说家Tidbeck的第一本小说集，由她自己译成英文。她的小说有多有奇幻、科幻的元素，最让人赞叹的是她在这些作品中表现出的想象力。她的作品被评为“weird in all good ways"，也许可以这样说：她是写怪异题材的人中很会写作的，又是会写作的人中选取题材最怪异的一类。这本处女作在英语文学界已经赢得充分的关注和赞誉；她的第一本长篇Amatka的英文版很快也将出版。 Enter the strange and wonderful world of Swedish sensation Karin Tidbeck with this feast of darkly fantastical short stories. Whether through the falsified historical record of the uniquely weird Swedish creature known as the “Pyret” or the title story, “Jagannath,” about a biological ark in the far future, Tidbeck’s unique imagination will enthrall, amuse, and unsettle you. How else to describe a collection that includes “Cloudberry Jam,” a story that opens with the line “I made you in a tin can”? Marvels, quirky character studies, and outright surreal monstrosities await you in the book widely praised by Michael Swanwick, Ursula K. Le Guin, China Mieville, and Karen Joy Fowler. Publishers Weekly calls it “brave…and brilliant.” Locus Magazine says this is the most significant debut since the award-winning Margo Lanagan. Introduction by Elizabeth Hand, afterword by the author.