Shijiazhuang Daily client (reporter Huang Ying, Liu Di) Remember the blind Ah Bing, who can eavesdrop on the heavenly machine through his ears? Remember huang Yiyi, the goddess of wisdom who is an angel on one side and a devil on the other? Remember the mysterious place "701" hidden in the mountains, forever with countless undefined stories? In order to commemorate the twenty years of the publication of "Dark Calculation", the People's Literature Publishing House has specially launched the hardcover collection edition of "Dark Calculation", which is exclusively created by famous designers, carefully designed, and presented to readers with the most innovative and dynamic appearance.
Since its publication, "Dark Calculation" has not only won the seventh Mao Dun Literature Award, but also been selected into the British "Penguin Classics" library together with "Decryption", which are the only two contemporary novels in China to be included in the library. It has opened up a new field of "espionage" literature with "code breaking", and has become a classic of this type of literature. The TV series "Dark Calculation" and the movie "The Sound of the Wind", based on the novel of the same name, set off a wave of contemporary Chinese spy war film and television.
Reading "Dark Calculations" is to experience a reading adventure. Mai Jia's "701" breaks our habitual imagination of the real world, facing the world that we never understand, gifted blind people, intelligent and beautiful female scientists, and deciphered geniuses who cannot return to normal life have become another perspective for us to understand the world, and here human nature also shows different dimensions. Secretly calculating the enemy, but being secretly calculated by life; cracking the enemy's code, but it is difficult to understand the secret code of people's hearts.
"Dark Calculations" is about the strange people behind the war, but in the end it can't hide these special people, in that special era, they silently cracked the code, stuck to the secret like a rock, sacrificed themselves and their families, and saved the defense line of national victory. Mai Jia is happy to show a rock-solid belief in "Dark Calculation", which is the value and pursuit of his writing. He once said of his writing: "Times are changing, changing with each passing day, some virtues becoming pedantic, some sublime becoming ridiculous, and some secrets becoming household names." But some things, some values, some eyes, are constant and unchanging. Ideally, the meaning of my writing is to find, or build, these things, these values, these eyes. ”
In order to highlight the special significance of the hardcover commemorative edition, the new edition of "Dark Calculation" was designed by Tao Lei, a famous designer and winner of "China's Most Beautiful Book". The main colors of the book cover are orange and silver, Andray added Braille hollow design to the contrasting color, and the twelve black circles on the back cover of the cover are the Braille of the word "dark calculation", which has become another interpretation of "dark calculation" and a symbol of the code secret electricity. Among them, the three black circle cutouts on the cover are also designed with gilded transmitters, pistols, and cameras, which are the main elements of the three stories in the novel, echoing the silhouettes of the three characters on the cover, pointing out the main characters and plots. The inner text layout is also well-designed. The silhouettes of the three mysterious figures in the catalog are not only the embodiments of Ah Bing, Huang Yiyi, and Wei Fu, but also the three groups they each represent.
Over the years, The Mai family's novels have a large number of fans, and famous artists such as Wang Anyi, Su Tong, Ah Lai, and Li Jingze have also praised their works. "The Mai family has effectively expanded the imagination of Chinese. He brought some cosmopolitan themes into Chinese literature, such as the absurdity of human intelligence and the arrogance of the will. He turned the wars and revolutions, intrigues and violence experienced by Chinese into a secluded saga of the human condition. Li Jingze said.
Mai Jia, a contemporary writer, was born in 1964 in Fuyang, Zhejiang. In 1981, he was admitted to the military academy and graduated from the Radio Department of the PLA Engineering and Technology College and the Literature Department of the PLA Academy of Arts. In 1986, he wrote and published six novels, including "Decryption", "Dark Calculation", "The Sound of the Wind", and "Life Sea". "Dark Calculation" won the 7th Mao Dun Literature Award. His works have been translated into more than thirty languages. In 2014, "Decryption" was named "The World's Top Ten Novels of the Year" by The Economist magazine in the United Kingdom; in 2015, it won the BEST BOOK AWARD IN THE UNITED STATESALA; and in 2017, it was selected by the British "Daily Telegraph" as the "Best 20 Spy Novels in Global History".