what i liked about this book are the unique aspects of it: the setting and time, somewhere in china in modern times; the primary character, almost an orphan, who becomes an amazing genius; what happens to him, forced to serve his government as a cryptographer and eventually goes mad.it is fas...
This is fictionalized history set in China between end of WW2 and 1970, telling the story of a "genius" who is recruited as a codebreaker by the Chinese government. Many of the narrators are university mathematicians. There are a lot of problems with the plot and prose of the book, which in the e...