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作为五处中惟一热衷于读小说的“女文青”，而且“碰巧”长着仿佛直接从小说中走出来的身材和相貌，塞丽娜接受了一项特殊任务：“甜牙行动”旨在以间接而隐蔽的方式资助那些在意识形态上符合英国利益且对大众具有影响力的写作者，而塞丽娜负责接近并引诱其加盟的是这项行动中惟一的小说家，汤姆·黑利。
汤姆和塞丽娜相爱了，爱得步步为营，爱得亦真亦假，爱得绝处逢生。但你猜中了开头，却未必能猜到结尾。阅读《甜牙》的快感之一就是等待结尾向前文的反戈一击，等待充盈在文本中的那些关键词——政治与文学、间谍与作家、读者与作者、欺骗与爱情——如何被赋予崭新的意义。你会看到，那些你在前面的情节中已经熟识的人物及其相互关系，怎样在突然间都站到了镜子的另一面，怎样在叙事光芒的照耀下产生别样的张力。
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This is only the second McEwan novel I've read. The first was Atonement, which I enjoyed very much. Sadly, I did not like this novel. I found that it dragged. I realized that I was three-quarters of the way through it and wondered when it was going to get good. I got tired of the narrator, of her voice. I found the portrayal of her moral dilemma to be shallow and inconsequential. All of it got old: her vanity, her cluelessness, the casual sexism, both from other characters and internalized by Serena, and even the setting during what was apparently the most boring period of espionage during the Cold War. ***SPOILER ALERT*** Now that I've finished it, instead of finding the big twist to be clever and exculpatory, I find it a let down. It doesn't make me like it better now that I know that it was all one long inside joke, them getting off on picking at each others' weaknesses in long-form prose. Coming after Atonment, it felt like a gimmick. I will give McEwan credit: I didn't see the twist ending coming.