Xin'an Evening News Anhui Network Dawan News This exciting and fascinating work of "Dark Calculation" has gone through its wonderful twenty years, and the series of espionage works opened by "Dark Calculation" has added an important territory to the development of contemporary literature. In order to commemorate the twenty years of the publication of "Dark Calculation", the People's Literature Publishing House recently launched the hardcover collection edition of "Dark Calculation", which was created exclusively by famous designers to explore the value of existence and the secrets of life in the world of "dark calculation".
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", adapted from the novel of the same name, set off a frenzy of contemporary Chinese spy war film and television, which was deeply loved by the audience. "Dark Calculation" has refreshed the new heights of espionage literature, and the code-breaking world built by the Mai family has not yet been surpassed.
Spy war is also a national war, although "Dark Calculation" is about the unsung heroes behind the war, they have the feeling of home and country, and have achieved great things in their home country with faith and persistence, and have also honed themselves into a different look. Speaking of his writing, the Mai family said: "Times are changing, changing with each passing day, some virtues have become pedantic, some sublime have become ridiculous, and some secrets have become 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 addition to winning the 7th Mao Dun Literature Award, "Dark Calculation" has been translated into more than 30 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".
It is reported that the new version of "Dark Calculation" is designed by Mr. Tao Lei, a famous designer and winner of "China's Most Beautiful Book". Adhering to the concept that design is to make the text better inhabit, the design of the new version of "Dark Calculation" closely interacts with the content of the novel and grows with each other: the most core elements and content of the novel are presented on the cover, and at the same time, the "high value" attracts the attention of readers for the first time.
Xin'an Evening News Anhui Network Dawan News reporter Jiang Nannan
Editor: Peng Ling