Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene

Our Man in Havana

Graham Greene

出版时间

2007-07-31

ISBN

9780142438008

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

Graham Greeneas classic Cuban spy story, now with a new package and a new introduction First published in 1959, "Our Man in Havana" is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire that still resonates today. Conceived as one of Graham Greeneas aentertainments, a it tells of MI6as man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent out of economic necessity. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Lambas "Tales from Shakespeare" and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true.

格雷厄姆·格林(1904—1991) 英国小说家,曾从事新闻、编辑、外交工作,足迹遍及南美、东欧、亚洲、非洲。著作等身,包含小说、剧本、评论、传记、诗集、儿童文学等。一生获诺贝尔文学奖提名达二十一次之多,然终未获奖。

吴幸宜 生于台湾省,台湾大学心理研究所硕士,现任模范市场研究顾问公司研究部副总监。业余从事翻译,译有《天使之乡》、《让记忆活起来》、《生活悠游术》、《红拇指印》、《苹果树之歌》等十余种。

用户评论
大概是最好看的元小说兼官僚机构赞歌了,和康拉德的secret agent放到一起看更好玩。Greene绝对是一脸坏笑地写出来的!
非常好笑
very humorous language
太妙了,极度讽刺,幽默风趣
情节太妙了!那个吸尘器图纸要笑死我。格林的小说就算是“消遣小说”也比很多人的严肃。
读的并不是这个一摸一样的版本 但是很多年都没有读过英文小说了 虽然前期很慢很慢 庆幸自己坚持下来了 因为M.W
Guess what, we got our man in Havana. 偏爱格林写的医生角色,最后叫Jim那点就很戳人,医生可能以为是Wormold的终局,没成想是自己的终局。
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