书籍介绍
MGB officer Leo is a man who never questions the Party Line. He arrests whomever he is told to arrest. He dismisses the horrific death of a young boy because he is told to, because he believes the Party stance that there can be no murder in Communist Russia. Leo is the perfect soldier of the regime. But suddenly his confidence that everything he does serves a great good is shaken. He is forced to watch a man he knows to be innocent be brutally tortured. And then he is told to arrest his own wife. Leo understands how the State works: Trust and check, but check particularly on those we trust. He faces a stark choice: his wife or his life. And still the killings of children continue...
AI导读
核心看点
- 斯大林时期苏联连环杀童案
- 极权体制下的人性异化与压抑
- 忠诚与良知冲突下的生死抉择
适合谁读
- 悬疑推理与历史惊悚爱好者
- 对苏联历史及政治体制感兴趣者
- 喜欢强节奏、高张力剧情读者
读前提醒
- 需了解斯大林时代背景以深化理解
- 关注主角在体制压迫下的心理变化
- 注意书中隐喻的政治讽刺意味
读者共识
- 情节紧凑，极具画面感与沉浸感
- 前半部分氛围营造极佳，压抑阴冷
- 虽有人设争议，但整体阅读体验流畅
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "“你们有没有什么熟人被拘捕了？” 这个问题很生硬，里奥也感觉到这一点。史蒂芬和安娜相互看了一眼，接着处理手中的食物，他们显然很高兴现在有事可做。安娜耸耸肩： “每个人都有熟人被拘捕，但我们对此从不表示怀疑。我自己认为：你们这些军官都有证据。我只知道从表面去看一个人，而每个人看起来都很好，很正常，很忠诚。你们的工作就是看透这些表象。你们知道什么对这个国家最有利，这不是像我们这样的人所能评判的。” 里奥点点头，接着说道： “这个国家有许多敌人，全世界都憎恨我们的革命，我们必须保护它，不幸的是，我们甚至要保护这个国家免受我们自己的破坏。” 他停下来，他来这里的目的不是重复关于这个国家的华丽修辞。他的"
- "“在你杀我之前，我想要和你玩几把牌。哥哥，求你了，你至少可以为我做这件事。” 安德雷正在洗牌，里奥看着那些牌。 “求你了，哥哥，就玩儿这一把。如果你陪我玩儿一把，我就让你杀我。”"
- "你对这个国家的人民没有信心，是因为你周围都是当权的人。这个国家并不代表这些村庄，这个国家也不理解他们，对他们也不感兴趣。"
- "她将水果全部倒进垃圾桶里，她盯着这些色泽鲜艳的水果，然后又将它们一一从垃圾桶里捡起来。她可以吃他的水果，但她不会哭。"
- "瑞莎对他的演讲以及学校设计背后的含意总是非常清楚：这个国家不需要诗人、哲学家和牧师。它需要可以衡量和量化的生产力，需要能够以秒表计时的成功。"
- "她突然跑起来，小鞋子拍打着楼梯，赶快离开这个陌生人，回到家里，她现在还太小，还相信家是安全的所在。"
- "他想洗掉自己手上的什么？背叛吗，不是——他对隐喻不感兴趣。他洗手不过是因为手脏而已。他搜查自己的公寓不过是不得已而为之。他不必想得太多。"
- "A man stepped forward, in his mid-forties, an air of self-importance about him. -- As chairman of this kolkhoz, it is my duty to point out that it would be in our best interests to turn them over. Raisa glanced the other villagers. Had she been wrong? Had the State already infiltrated these villages"
作者简介
Tom Rob Smith (born 1979) is an English writer. The son of a Swedish mother and an English father, Smith was raised in London where he lives today. After graduating from Cambridge University in 2001, he completed his studies in Italy, studying creative writing for a year. After these studies, he worked as a scriptwriter.
His first novel, Child 44, about a series of child murders in Stalinist Russia, appeared in early 2008 and was translated into 17 languages. It was awarded the 2008 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for Best Thriller of the year by the Crime Writer's Association. It was recently a Barnes & Noble recommended book. On July 29, 2008 the book was named on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. In November 2008, he was nominated for the 2008 Costa First Novel Award (former Whitbread).
Child 44 followed-up by The Secret Speech (2009)and Agent 6 (2011).
用户评论
finally finished,awesome thriller
almost ridiculous
以为是反特，其实是变态。过程曲折、动作连贯、前苏背景、血腥残暴。缺点就是故事太扯🤪
有点文不对题，第44个孩子太不明显了，就提到一两次，看到后面都忘了书名是什么意思。人物关系和结局都很讽刺
结尾逊掉了
讀的是日本新潮社的文庫上下本。作者不愧是劍橋文學首席畢業，文筆簡單易懂，故事充滿張力和戲劇性，特別是書後大量參考文獻和學者朋友的指正幫助所準確地描寫和構建起了斯大林時代的極權蘇聯，讓人大呼過癮。而李奧也是最苦逼的偵探了，從國家英雄變成人民公敵，歷經千辛萬苦終於偵破羅斯托夫開膛手連環殺人案！
处女作就写出这个水平可以说非常厉害了。某些情节在当前大局势下读来，真是“于我心有戚戚焉”
政治背景和犯罪现场的描写 以及主角们内心的情感纠结和思想变化都描绘得很出色 故事情节很动人 完全不会感到无聊或老套 总之是很喜欢的一本书
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