约翰·勒卡雷，原名大卫·康威尔 David Cornwell，1931年生于英国。18岁便被英国军方情报单位招募，担任对东柏林的间谍工作；退役后在牛津大学攻读现代语言，之后于伊顿公学教授法文与德文。1959年进入英国外交部，同时开始写作。他以第三本著作《柏林谍影》一举 成名，知名小说家格林如此盛赞：“这是我读过的最好的间谍小说！”从此奠定文坛大师地位。
I wrote The Spy Who Came in from the Cold at the age of thirty under intense, unshared, personal stress, and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues and much of the time to myself. I had written a couple of earlier novels, necessarily under a pseudonym, and my employing service had approved them before publication. After lengthy soul-searching, they had also approved The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. To this day, I don’t know what I would have done if they hadn’t.
As it was, they seem to have concluded, rightly if reluctantly, that the book was sheer fiction from start to finish, uninformed by personal experience, and that accordingly it constituted no breach of security. This was not,... (查看原文)
这本书去年夏天看过，非常喜欢，最近看原文的时候，偶然会想起和译文不一样的地方，随手记了一下，自己英文水平极低，对故事的理解能力更低，贴出来不供参考。 1.第118页 原文： There was a girl standing on the beach throwing bread to the sea gulls. Her back was turn...
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Penguin Classics2019版（其他版本）
47 有用 惊蛰白露TOU 2016-05-30 15:51:00
像老式译制片。
9 有用 #暗蓝# 2015-12-07 11:17:57
重读依旧有满满的满足感，一是因为书好，二是因为记性不好...
3 有用 禁止老头乐 2017-02-03 20:47:15
一贯的铺垫铺垫，最后来个大反转，贯穿着悲情，目前勒卡雷最喜欢的一本！
13 有用 十三 2016-09-15 17:16:33
精彩至极！这才是间谍小说嘛！完全没有锅匠冗长和沉闷，每一分钟都让人窒息。结尾实在是太经典，太悲情了！
11 有用 日暮倚修竹 2017-05-17 00:22:02
0516。不爱看007那样的楚留香式英雄。作为间谍，半人半鬼，确实是游走在两个世界的。而爱情，在其中不是点缀和花絮，而是男人心里的底线，敌人拿捏的把柄。女人死得其所。同归于尽。幸好，初次阅读间谍小说，读的是名家经典，喂饱心境。