Wong Kar-wai: Some people say that strange stories from a strange studio are only three steps away from classic literature. But these three steps can't be finished. The greatness of Mai Jia is that he completed these three steps with firm, slow and powerful steps, leaving a delicate and mysterious map.
Su Tong: People call Mai Jia the father of China's spy novels. I think this may be part of the truth. In my opinion, Mai Jia's novel is very similar to an exquisite clock. The active second hand actively spreads the story, the leisurely minute hand guides the reader to wander in the depths of the suspense jungle, and the heavy hour hand runs in the dark, bearing the author's extremely serious writing ideal: the mystery of the confrontation between man and time and the way of getting along with society, not only stolen in the heavy password, but also completely forgotten in the strongest memory.
Alai: Mai Jia appeared when many writers thought that the plot and the secrets contained in the story had been exhausted and turned the novel into an obscure style in the name of innovation. He deeply explored a subject area that many people have dabbled in, and illuminated so many secrets with his unique spotlight, both technical and human. And all these are connected by wonderful stories. Everything shines on the story tree.
Tie Ning: Mai Jia expresses the fate of those with special talents with magic and vigorous imagination, and explores the energy and brilliance of will in a closed space. His agility and interest, as well as his painful and concise words, make his novels exude a breathtaking and refined charm and become a unique existence in the contemporary literary world of China.
Li Jingze: The Mai family has effectively expanded the imagination of China people. He brought some world-wide themes to China literature, such as the absurdity of human wisdom and the arrogance of will. He turned the war and revolution, conspiracy and violence experienced by China people into a mysterious legend of human feelings.
Wang Anyi: In the smallest possible atmosphere, simplify the conditions as much as possible and compress them into abstract logic without losing the vividness of things, because logic has its own sense of image, depending on how you perceive and present it. Maijia is approaching the target step by step-this is a narrow road, which is also limited by itself, but because it is narrow, it goes straight to the depths, just like a blade.
Zhang Yiwu: Another factor of Mai Jia's popularity is that his works have pure literary temperament under the appearance of popular literature. Mai Jia's works have both the spirit of mathematics and humanistic feelings. His spy war stories carefully and profoundly observed people's desires and changes in various environments. Mai Jia is a bit like graham greene, an English writer. "A cross figure between the popular literature market and the pure literature market has a very accurate grasp of literature.
Chen Xiaoming: For China literary world, Mai Jia's writing undoubtedly belongs to a unique way. The existence of this man has become noticeable. He is so tenacious, absolutely, stubborn. His writing is mysterious, dark, magical and unfathomable, and there are mysteries lurking everywhere, which makes people breathless.
Rita: People like to call Mai Jia's novels new intelligence novels, secret room novels, special novels, spy novels and declassified novels. I don't think it matters what the name is. What matters is the nature and characteristics of the talent shown by Mai Jia. Mai Jia's success first depends on his super narrative and reasoning ability and his ability to manage dense structures. He can open infinite possibilities in a very narrow space, dig out endless waves, create endless suspense, and drag you to the end in one breath. You have to look at it.
Xinmin Evening News: In Mai Jia's works, people are no longer purely passive and victims, but explorers and surveyors who take the initiative to step into the maze. This man's initiative has been greatly enhanced. On the one hand, his process of cracking the code is an exploration of the maze, but at the same time it is also a process of getting out of the maze and crossing the maze. Human wisdom and the spiritual strength of the subject are also revealed in this arduous process. The New York Times, USA: The secret world described by Mai Jia in his works is unknown to most people in China, especially foreigners ",and Wang Dewei, a professor of East Asian Department of Harvard University, is quoted as saying that the artistic style of Mai Jia's novels" is a mixture of revolutionary historical legends and spy novels, and is also influenced by western spy novels and psychological thriller literature ".
The Economist: A China novel that everyone should own ... Finally, a great China novel appeared.
BBC Radio: Decryption is a great novel, and Mai Jia is the most successful writer in the world you don't know yet.
American New Yorker: Mai Jia skillfully combines his unparalleled writing talent with Borges' temperament, presenting readers with a complicated and beautiful history of China and unique political charm.
The New York Times Book Review: I have read many high-quality China novels, but this is the only one that is truly fascinating. It brings readers into a highly specialized and targeted world, from which it is not difficult to find themselves.
American WSJ: The readability and literary color of decryption are inclusive, which implies echoes of chesterton, Borges, Imagist poets, Hebrew and Christian scriptures, Nabokov and Nietzsche.
Guardian: Not surprisingly, when you finish reading Decryption, you will definitely want to read more works by Mai Jia. ..... Mai Jia has a unique narrative language. He described the story of an indifferent hero fighting for an undeciphered goal, and these stories are the silhouettes left by him and his comrades in the post-war period in China.
Decryption is an intriguing and unusual novel. In a unique way, it uses multiple perspectives and complex methods that need readers to decipher, but it also makes readers completely fall into the cipher fable woven by the author. The author himself opened a magical world of mathematical cryptography with his own good cryptography.
British Times Literature Supplement: The novel Decryption explores secrets, politics, dreams and their significance in subtlety and complexity ... From the beginning of strangeness and superstition to the gradual decline of rong family in the 20th century, this book is fascinating ... However, after its publication, revealing the complexity of human nature is the eternal theme of this book.
In 1980s, a large number of outstanding writers appeared in China, such as Mo Yan, Su Tong, Yu Hua and Wang Anyi. However, since the new century, only one writer has emerged in China's literary world, and that is Mai Jia.
British "Sunday Independent": Decryption is a fascinating and unusual work. Perhaps there are many unknown heroes like Rong Jinzhen around us.
British Independent: Decryption is an extraordinary novel that people are addicted to and can't put it down.
American Publishers Weekly: Decryption tells a fascinating story for readers through its unique perspective, inspiring narrative and ingenious intersection with complex mathematical theories.
British Daily Telegraph: Decryption vividly depicts the role and position of China and China in world history around 1949. This amazing story not only focuses on Rong Jinzhen and his family's mathematical genius, but also reorganizes that history from a familiar angle.
English Times: Mai Jia's genius and wisdom lie not only in his storytelling skills, but also in the legendary mazes he wrote, the unfortunate situation of the characters and the unconventional death in the end. Mai Jia broke the predicament that China's best-selling writers were unknown in China and in the world, and became a hot writer in the world at present.
Financial Times: Mai Jia's writing style combines the characteristics of Borges and Nabokov. Surprisingly, Decryption is a completely original literary type-it combines spy novels, historical elements and mathematical logic into a shocking whole.
American magazine New Harmony: As Mai Jia's description of the patriotic decoder implies, Rong Jinzhen can be regarded as a China hero.
Chicago Tribune: Just like Miyazaki Hayao's latest film The Wind is Blowing, Mai Jia's Decryption explores a gifted genius. In his works, there are not only heroes who look for light in the dark, but also admirable persistent efforts to uphold national beliefs.