贝拉（本名沈镭）旅外浪漫主义女作家。生于上海。早年留日，浸染于东洋乐海光影；后远游世界，饱览天下名胜奇观；今居北美，回归于湖光海岛。通琴棋书画、晓多国语言。已出版《9.11生死婚礼》《贝拉神秘园》《伤感的卡萨布兰卡》等多部书，《魔咒钢琴》为其标志性著作。贝拉作品不仅同时在港台出版发行繁体字版，更多翻译成英、法、日、印度等多国语言。

《魔咒钢琴(英文版)》内容简介：The story originates in Shanghai during the second War The talented pianist adam is a deprtessed Jewish young man If there were no exchusion of the Jewish peopole by Nazis Adam woukd not have escaped to Lrningrad;if Li Mei an orphan from the Red Army of China,had a harmonious family,she would not have met Adam on the war between Russia and Ger many Like flpating clouds they meeet and they fall in love in the setting of music together,theycompose Romantic tune in desceding Dmajor Each has enormous assions and tender feelings towards their own culture and motherland They yearn for love like two free birds Nevertheless,when the German army launches a plan of war in Russia,numerous Jewish people have to move again for a harbor At the time,shanghai is the legend of"Noah's Ark"to the Jewish people ,which attracts many Jews,inchuding Adan,who flee togethe with LiMei……

This is an apic of tragic romance shined by the greathess of human nature The miseries of the war,the poetic thinkings,the holy belief,the power of tragedy,the voidness of like,and the exquisiteness of romance-all these elements interact and make the story as is presented before us This is a book for the world