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怎样在中国发大财 How to make it in China If the most common trope in fiction in the past 10 years has been the 9/11 novel, we may now be seeing the beginnings of the next wave: stories of success (or at least the hunt for it) in Asia. 如果说过去10年以来，小说中最常见的隐喻是“911小说”，我们现在或许正在目睹下一波潮流的开始：亚洲的成功故事（或者至少是追逐成功的故事）。 On the heels of two recent novels we reviewed in the spring, Kevin Kwans Crazy Rich Asians and Mohsin Hamids How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, comes Tash Aws newest book, Five Star Billionaire. As with the bestselling 2011 baseball novel The Art of Fielding, which takes its title from a shortstops manual that the novels protagonist cherishes, Aws book pays homage to a fictional guidebook, Secrets of a Five Star Billionaire: the narrator imparts step-by-step tips on how to get rich. 我们在春天撰文评述了两部近期出版的小说：凯文?关的《疯狂的亚洲富人》( Crazy Rich Asians )与穆赫辛?哈米德的《亚洲崛起之际的暴富之道》(How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia)。没过多久，华裔作家欧大旭的新书《五星级亿万富翁》(Five Star Billionaire)就来到了我们的案头。一如2011年以棒球为主题的畅销书《防守的艺术》(The Art of Fielding)——书名取自小说主人公珍视的一本游击手手册——欧大旭的这部小说也是向一本虚构的指南书《一位五星级亿万富翁的秘密》(Secrets of a Five Star Billionaire)致敬：叙述者循序渐进地传授了发家致富的秘诀。 If the theme sounds familiar, it may well be because Hamids book is likewise written as a faux self-improvement guide. 如果这个主题听起来很熟悉，那很可能是因为哈米德的书同样是以一部虚假的自我完善指南作为写作架构的。 Aws novel, though, is more intimate and accessible than Hamids, who sets his book in a nameless Asian country (likely Pakistan, but it isnt divulged) and whose prose is almost utilitarian in its spareness. The background for Five Star Billionaire, by contrast, is the glimmering, booming city of Shanghai -- a place where Aw makes us feel that anything is possible. 但相较于哈米德的那本著作，欧大旭的新书更加详尽，更易理解。哈米德以一个无名的亚洲国家（很可能是巴基斯坦，但书中并未透露）作为故事背景，其散文体缺乏厚度，几乎散发着一股功利主义的气息。相比之下，《五星级亿万富翁》的背景是一座微光闪烁，蓬勃发展的城市：上海，这是一个欧大旭让我们觉得一切皆有可能发生的地方。 Hamids narrator is removed and anonymous, ruthless in his advice to the reader. Aws narrator is affectingly, if uncomfortably, real: Walter Chao, a real estate mogul whose friendly, instruct