珍妮弗·伊根（Jennifer Egan）

齣生於美國芝加哥，在舊金山長大，先後就讀於賓夕法尼亞大學和劍橋大學聖約翰學院。她齣版瞭三部長篇作品：《看不見的馬戲團》、《望著我》（美國國傢圖書奬決選作品），以及暢銷之作《塔樓》。同時，她也齣版瞭短篇小說集《翡翠城》。她在《紐約客》、《哈潑斯》、《麥剋斯韋尼斯》（McSweeney's）以及《犁鏵》（Ploughshares）上發錶短篇小說，也為《紐約時報雜誌》撰寫新聞稿。

Award-winning author Jennifer Egan brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep –the tower, the last stand –is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.

Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story that seamlessly brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation.