Lin Xiaoxiao, a student majoring in modern languages, accidentally traveled to Shanghai in 1939. With her ability to be "fluent in eight languages", she was forcibly recruited as a translator by the Japanese military's special high school class. She hides in the cracks of many forces and uses language as a blade - she uses Japanese to confuse her enemies, she uses French to convey secret codes, she uses dialects to guide refugees, she hides information in the gaps in translations, and she discerns authenticity in the tone of conversations.
She and Su Wenqing, an underground member of the Communist Party of China lurking in the special high school, went from mutual testing to tacit understanding. She transformed from "typist Lin Xiao" who just wanted to save her life to an invisible warrior who weaves webs with language. The German code of the germ bank, the Latin secret words in the church bells, the missing object notices in the newspaper advertisements... Every language has become her weapon and medal. When the New Year's bell resonated with the explosion of the arsenal, she finally understood: the sharpest thing in troubled times is never the guns, but the human heart and faith hidden in the language.
Every chapter is exciting! ! !
Great book