2015考研英语阅读英文原刊《经济学人》：书评--烟雾氤氲

　　2015考研英语复习正是强化复习阶段，考研英语阅读在考研英语中占了40分，所以考研英语阅读是英语科目中重要的一项。新东方名师范猛老师曾建议过考研生需要坚持每天泛读10-15分钟的英文原刊。强烈推荐了杂志《经济学人》.杂志中的文章也是考研英语的主要材料来源.希望考研考生认真阅读，快速提高考研英语阅读水平。

　　Newthriller;Wreathed in smoke;

　　新的惊悚小说;烟雾氤氲;

　　The Golden Scales. By Parker Bilal.

　　《金色的区域》，Parker Bilal于布伦堡著。

　　Parker Bilal whisks the reader straight to the darkheart of Cairo. From the maze of alleys in themedieval bazaar to sand-blown, half-finishedluxury housing developments, the Egyptian capitalis a menacing place where betrayal swirls like anarmy of djinns.

　　Parker Bilal带领读者轻松杀入开罗黑暗的心脏。从中世纪市集迷宫般的巷道，到尘土飞扬，尚未竣工的豪宅工地，埃及首都处处是威胁，背叛则如神魔组成的军队一般盘旋梭巡，神出鬼没。

　　Makana is a poverty-stricken Sudanese political exile living alone on a rickety houseboat onthe Nile. He is commissioned by Hanafi, a violent and corrupt Cairene oligarch, with findingAdil Romario, a star football player. Meanwhile, Liz Markham, the daughter of a Britisharistocrat, has been tortured and murdered while searching for her daughter, who wentmissing in Cairo more than 20 years earlier. A former policeman himself, Makana is no naif,but he rapidly finds himself in a perilous world peopled with Egypt's ultra-rich, Islamicmilitants and Russian organised crime. It's a heady mix, but one that Mr Bilal pulls off withverve.

　　Makana，苏丹人士，穷困潦倒，因政治问题被流放他乡，独居于尼罗河上一艘破败不堪的船屋里。他肩负开罗残暴腐朽的独裁者Hanafi的使命，寻找足球明星Adil Romario。同时，英国贵族之女Liz Markham在寻找20余年前在开罗丢失的女儿时被折磨并被杀害了。Makana曾为警察，自然绝不天真，但很快却发现自己身陷人间地狱，周围尽是埃及巨富、伊斯兰好战分子，还有俄罗斯人组织的犯罪。这是个让人眼花缭乱的局面，Bilal先生却用高超的技艺成功驾驭了它。

　　A London-born literary novelist, Parker Bilal (whose real name is Jamal Mahjoub) has alsolived in Cairo and Sudan. His prose has a subtlety that is rarely found in crime novels: anold man “screwed up his face so that all the lines drew together, like a net being drawn in”;metal rods on a construction site are scattered like “enormous burned matchsticks”; nakedlight bulbs on an electrical flex resemble “strange fruits on a vine”. The novel is set inpre-Arab-spring Cairo and the city is vividly evoked, its smells and sounds almost seepingfrom the pages. Characters such as Okasha, a policeman who is Makana's friend and ally,and Sami, a terrier-like reporter, are nuanced and believable though the story flags a littlein the middle—always tricky territory for a crime novel—and there are perhaps one toomany meaningful meetings with long looks across the table wreathed in cigarette smoke. Inthe end there is justice, of a sort. Some evildoers are punished, others walk free protected byhigher authorities, just as they probably would in real-life Cairo. The twist at the end issubtly signalled. Makana, too, has his demons. His journey, as he learns to live with them,stays with you.

　　Parker Bilal(真名为Jamal Mahjoub)生于伦敦，曾居于苏丹和开罗，擅写小说，文笔优美。他的犯罪小说字字璇玑，笔触细腻精妙，有如散文，甚为难得：一位老人“饱经风霜，脸上的皱纹交结在一起，如同一张收拢的渔网。”;建筑工地散乱的钢筋像“无数烧过的火柴棍儿”;灯泡没有灯罩，悬在花线末端，宛如“葡萄藤上奇异的水果”。小说将故事背景设在“阿拉伯之春”前，鲜活地重现了当时的开罗：它的喧嚣，它的气味，全都跃然纸上，呼之欲出。小说对角色的刻画细致入微，真实可信;Makana的同盟好友Okasha警官，对朋友忠诚友善的记者Sami都是如此。然而文章的中段有些拖沓——犯罪小说很难处理好这些地方——还有一些多余的“有意义”的会面，人从这头穿过氤氲的烟雾看着桌子的那头。在文章最后，正义勉强算是得到了伸张。一些行恶之人受到了惩罚，一些则在上头的保护下逍遥法外;如果真的是在开罗，最后结局大概也就是这样。结尾的大转折在前文中埋有伏笔。Makana心中也有自己的恶魔。在旅途中，他学习着如何与它们一道生活;在这条路上，他与你相随。

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