Content introduction
"Floating City on the Sea" is a global espionage epic set against the background of World War II. It tells the legendary life of Chinese intelligence agent Lu Mingqian, who dealt with dignitaries, armies, rich men and ladies of various countries to obtain key strategic intelligence. The work adopts the narrative structure of "everyone's perspective". Through the eyes of ordinary people such as aunts, barbers, and street children, the work reveals the calculations and struggles of power, and outlines an ukiyo-e of the world during World War II.
The work is one million words long, spanning more than ten cities including Shanghai, Paris, Berlin, Casablanca, New York, and Buenos Aires, and the time extends from 1935 to 1955. Different from the traditional spy novels that describe "heroism", this book focuses on the "human heart" - everyone, regardless of status, is a struggler in the current of the times. Behind Lu Mingqian's "perfection" is insomnia and emotional isolation. Underneath the "cruelty" of the Japanese intelligence officer is the pain of tearing apart the family and the country. Deep in the "loyalty" of the military reunification agent is the paranoia after the disillusionment of ideals.
This is a novel about choice: in a world where black and white are indistinguishable, how does a person maintain the grayscale of his heart; in an era when trust is collapsing, how does a person deliver his faith. When all identities were stripped away, all Lu Mingqian left to the world was the words on the title page of a diary - "I have seen the best of times and the worst of times. But what I want to remember most are those who can still be a human being in the tide of the times."
