尼尔•盖曼（Neil Gaiman）

当代大师级幻想小说家，1960年生于英国。尼尔•盖曼是当代欧美文坛耀眼的新星，也是幻想文学的代名词，被《文学传记辞典》誉为十大后现代作家之一。

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1989年，盖曼以漫画《睡魔》开始了创作之路。其后，他的创作逐渐涵盖了小说、漫画、诗歌、剧本等多个领域，代表作有《美国众神》《星尘》《好兆头》《乌有乡》等。因其作品的独特风格和想象力，《迈阿密新时报》认为他已经成为“文学界的摇滚明星”；惊悚小说大师斯蒂芬•金则认为他“创作力之丰沃与作品水准之高，既神奇又吓人”。

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盖曼的创作以奇幻文学为主，这与他自幼阅读的大量神话密不可分。如今，在《北欧众神》中，他追本溯源，回归至爱的北欧神话体系，用自己的叙事技巧，与更多人分享阅读神话的快乐。

THE NO 1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Bestselling and much loved author Neil Gaiman, whose novel American Gods has been adapted into a major television series, brings vividly to life the stories of Norse mythology that have inspired his own extraordinary writing in this number one Sunday Times bestseller

The great Norse myths are woven into the fabric of our storytelling - from Tolkien, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcliff to Game of Thrones and Marvel Comics. They are also an inspiration for Neil Gaiman's own award-bedecked, bestselling fiction. Now he reaches back through time to the original source stories in a thrilling and vivid rendition of the great Norse tales. Gaiman's gods are thoroughly alive on the page - irascible, visceral, playful, passionate - and the tales carry us from the beginning of everything to Ragnarok and the twilight of the gods. Galvanised by Gaiman's prose, Thor, Loki, Odin and Freya are irresistible forces for modern readers and the crackling, brilliant writing demands to be read aloud around an open fire on a freezing, starlit night.