【龙腾网】Goodreads书评：《暗算》

【书名】《暗算》 （In the Dark – 400页，企鹅出版社2015年出版）
作者：麦家
五星：10%（10）
四星：24%（23）
三星：51%（48）
二星：11%（11）
一星： 1%（1）
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1、 四星，Vanessa，英国，女
Putting the dreadful Decoded aside, In TheDark is a much better prospect.
把糟糕透顶的《解密》扔在一边，《暗算》的前景要好得多。
The reader is lead through four shortstories all of which involve people with unusual and genius talents which areto be used and exploited by China's Secret Service - at the mysteriouscryptography Unit 701.
该书将读者引入发生在神秘保密单位701的四个短故事，涉及被中国保密单位利用乃至剥削的有着超乎寻常天赋的人们。
Although Mai Jia's writing is sometimesquite surreal In The Dark is very readable and moves along nicely. ReadingChinese literature, is always interesting, because characters often don't reactas we in the West would. Perhaps this is because they are often portrayed asParty members - all work, no play and the Party comes first.
虽然麦家的作品有时会相当离奇，《暗算》的可读性却很强，而且故事的推进恰到好处。阅读中国文学一直都是很有意思的，因为人物的反应通常都会和我们西方人不一样。这可能是因为他们常被描绘成党员的样子：只工作不休闲，而且会把党的事业放在第一位。
Reading Chinese cliches, similes andmetaphors is quite enjoyable but also very strange and at times almost opaquefor a western reader. Take for example "There is a saying that some womenare quite shrewish and some men toadying." Or what seems to be a classicChinese proverb "you always save the best steel for knives". Thesecond I can kind of understand but the first seems to need the culturalcontext of having grown up in China and it diminishes your appreciation of thetext without that background. Contrast that to how easily a western audiencedigests the General Patton quote used towards the end. "There's only oneproper way for a professional soldier to die: the last bullet of the lastbattle of the last war". It's so easy for a western audience tounderstand.