这个英译本译的比较糟糕，见AMAZON上的评论：

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Lost Words, April 4, 2000

By D. Barr "Too many movies"

The reader should be careful when reading this translation. The original German title is "Verlorene," which, while it does not retain its definite article ("die Verlorene") is a plural form. A better translation would have been "The Lost" -- and the family and the history and country in this book are indeed all lost. Other passages in the book make the reader of German wonder if this translation would be trustworthy. Readers of English-language literature should always be careful when approaching translations of German books, especially books dealing with horror, loss or grief. German has a great tradition of tragi-comedy -- in the original German, "All Quiet On The Western Front," (Actual title "In The West Nothing New" -- a pithy political title in itself!) loses its flavor of wild bitter humor. American readers have a tendency to trivialize anything "comic," as do American critics. The Germans, who have had to deal with such a long, painful history, have dealt with it by developing a fiercely tragic comic form. It doesn't translate, because German humor -- simultaneously balancing between the edgy, sharp, brilliant, and delicate, and filled with convuluted, ornate and subtle puns -- is so very language-linked, but the English reader should always keep this tradition in mind. In "The Lost," rape is not meant to be funny -- comedy is how a German deals with it. Don't be fooled by your tradition, or the translation. This is a book like a hammer.