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Decoded
- Title
- Decoded / Mai Jia ; Translated from the Chinese by Olivia Milburn and Christopher Payne.
- Author
- Mai, Jia, 1964-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 14-4085 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 315 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "One of China's bestselling novels, an unusual literary thriller that takes us deep into the world of code breaking In his gripping debut novel, Mai Jia reveals the mysterious world of Unit 701, a top-secret Chinese intelligence agency whose sole purpose is counterespionage and code breaking. Rong Jinzhen, an autistic math genius with a past shrouded in myth, is forced to abandon his academic pursuits when he is recruited into Unit 701. As China's greatest cryptographer, Rong discovers that the mastermind behind the maddeningly difficult Purple Code is his former teacher and best friend, who is now working for China's enemy--but this is only the first of many betrayals. Brilliantly combining the mystery and tension of a spy thriller with the psychological nuance of an intimate character study and the magical qualities of a Chinese fable, Decoded discovers in cryptography the key to the human heart. Both a riveting mystery and a metaphysical examination of the mind of an inspired genius, it is the first novel to be published in English by one of China's greatest and most popular contemporary writers"--
- Uniform Title
- Jie mi. English
- Alternative Title
- Jie mi.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Spy fiction.
- Language (note)
- Originally published in Chinese in 2002 by China Youth Publishing Group, Beijing entitled Jie mi.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-4085
- ISBN
- 9780374135805
- 0374135800
- LCCN
- 2013039911
- OCLC
- 2013039911
- Author
- Mai, Jia, 1964-
- Title
- Decoded / Mai Jia ; Translated from the Chinese by Olivia Milburn and Christopher Payne.
- Publisher
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
- Edition
- First American edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Language
- Originally published in Chinese in 2002 by China Youth Publishing Group, Beijing entitled Jie mi.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Milburn, Olivia, translator.Payne, Christopher, 1976- translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-4085