2022 has arrived.
In the new year, many good literary books will meet with readers. In the field of Chinese literature, Ye Xin, Liang Xiaosheng, Ren Xue, Ye Zhaoyan, Sun Ganlu, Lin Bai, Liu Liangcheng, Ai Wei, Zhou Meisen, Wang Xufeng and other famous artists have launched new works, Li Hao, Yi Zhou, Lu Nei, Tian Er, Fu Xiuying, Lu Min and other "post-70s" powerful writers have brought new works, as well as Fan Yusu's autobiographical novels, Peking University's first original fantasy literature works such as Fan Ye, professor of the Department of Western Portuguese at Peking University, and other "newcomer new works" are worth everyone's expectations.
On the occasion of the first weekend of 2022, the surging news reporter has compiled a New Year's book list based on Chinese literature and foreign literature for readers.
Ye Zhaoyan,"The Road to Father"
Introduction: The novella "The Road to Father" tells the story of a father and son, and also tells the memory of a family's times. Soon after Zhang Zuo's birth, his parents were separated due to discord, and he was raised by his grandfather Wei Ren and his grandmother since childhood, and was emotionally estranged from his father Zhang Xiyi. Time passed, Zhang Xiyi became famous in his later years, and the father and son also became closely related. Zhang Zuo, Zhang Xiyi, and Wei Ren were three generations of father and son or master and apprentice, with benevolent relatives and closer proximity.
"What happened to us on the road to our father?" This book is Ye Zhaoyan's return to his original intention of writing, with more than 60 years of life experience, the first time to face, pay tribute to, reflect on the life of his father's generation, but also a literary journey to explore the relationship between father and son.
Expected publication date: January 2022
Liu Liangcheng "Bemba"
Introduction: This is Liu Liangcheng's long new work. Where the epic stops, "Bemba" begins to tell. Immersed in the feast of youth for seven days and forty-nine days, Jianger was challenged by the distant King of Hari, and the young hero Hong gul went out alone. Unwilling to be born, Helan was forced to be born in order to rescue his brother Honggur, and used the moving game brought from the mother's womb to make all the adults on the grassland become children in the game, and finally returned to the mother's womb. In order to find his missing brother, Honggur, who did not want to grow up, used a game of hide-and-seek to hide half of the people on the grassland and the other half to find it. King Hari, who presided over the kingdom of Rama in his mother's womb, used the dream game to make all this his dream, and in the dream, let people see the founder of the real world Of Bemba: the epic rapper Qi. At first, these characters had only names, but later in the snowy night, in the stories around the campfire, they were told alive and had souls.
"Wang Anyi Adapted Zhang Ailing: Golden Locks, Colors, Rings"
Introduction: This book contains Wang Anyi's adaptation of Zhang Ailing's two famous works" "The Book of Golden Locks" and "Color, Ring". Around 2006, at the invitation of the Hong Kong Jiaoyuan Theatre Troupe, Wang Anyi successively adapted Zhang Ailing's famous articles "The Golden Lock" and "Color, Ring", one is Zhang Ailing's early works, the other is a late work, and the popularity of two stage plays has endured for a long time and have become the troupe's retained plays. On the basis of Zhang Ailing's keen writing, Wang Anyi added his own observation and understanding, which can be called an excellent dialogue between the two writers through time and space.
Ai Wei "Concert"
Introduction: This is Ai Wei's latest collection of short stories, which contains seven stories: "Concert" writes both the trauma of a broken life and the mutual comfort in the cold night; "The Thief" tries to explore who stole our lives and emotions; "In the Horqin Steppe" tells the unspeakable complexity and ambiguity between men and women; "Xiao Man" tells about the relationship between women's maternal love instincts and the body; "Happiness Hostel" tells about the unbearable guilt; "In Moscow" reflects the mental state of current intellectuals with an extraterritorial mirror image; The Last Day and the Other Day writes incomprehensible understandings and is therefore unfathomable. These novels show where the art of the short story can reach.
"The Way Spring Comes"
Introduction: "The Way Spring Comes" is an international cooperation project of contemporary Chinese fantasy novels, which includes 17 short and medium stories of 15 representative writers of the new generation of science fiction, such as Zhao Haihong, Xia Xiao, Chi Hui, Wu Shuang, Gu Shi, Wang Nono, Shen Dacheng, Chen Qian, etc., and is a wonderful appearance of Chinese science fiction literature "going out" in recent years. The book's authors, editors, translators, and designers are all-female creators, and the English version of The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories is launched overseas.
Zhu Xiaojun, "Chinese Peasant City"
Introduction: There are two miracles in the history of Urban Construction in China, one is Shenzhen, Guangdong, and the other is Longgang, Zhejiang. This book tells the true history of Longgang's development from a small fishing village to China's first peasant city, leaving a fiery and solemn record for the people's struggle: a group of farmers in Longgang, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, with the wisdom and diligence of the people, in just forty years, not only realized the dream of farmers to enter the city, but also created a miracle of farmers building a city. Longgang provides samples and experiences for China's urbanization path in terms of urban development, urban governance, and the pursuit of common prosperity.
He Ping's "The Return of Criticism"
Introduction: This is the private literary archive of the critic He Ping, which is divided into three series: "Ideological Trends", "Writers" and "Scene". "Ideological Trends" is an exploration and reflection on Chinese literature in the era of reform and opening up, especially in the twenty years of the new century, involving literary issues such as the overall view of Chinese literature in the era of reform and opening up, literature and intergenerational, literature and new media, world literature and Chinese experience, youth writing and public life, and multi-ethnic literary communities.
"Writer" is a series of reviews of writers' works. The five writers, from Alai, born in 1959, to Qiu Huadong, who was born in 1969, all became famous in the 1990s and are "contemporaries" in a broad sense. They were once named the "New Generation" and remain the most dynamic part of Chinese literature today. "Scene" hopes to reconstruct the dialogue between the academy's criticism and the literary scene, discover the new power of literature, and let the possibilities and differences of contemporary Chinese literature surface on the surface.
Kong Yare's Guide to Elysium Life
Introduction: This is the first collection of literary criticism by novelist and translator Kong Yalei, which contains a total of 20 articles created by Kong Yalei over the years, comprehensively showing the unique literary vision of a novelist and translator and the exquisite writing of non-fiction writing. On the one hand, it has made in-depth and meticulous and unique reviews and introductions to well-known or emerging writers and poets from all over the world, including the well-known "Alice in Wonderland", Haruki Murakami, Raymond Carver, Paul Auster, Leonard Cohen, etc., as well as James Souter (the novel "Lightyear"), Jeff Dyer ("However, Beautiful: The Book of Jazz"), Cesar Ella ("Musical Brain"), etc., which have been widely regarded in recent years by the author of this book.
On the other hand, it is also a personal history and creative talk with intrinsic and hidden connections. From "2666" to "Alice in Wonderland", from "Stoner" to "Lightyear", from leonard Cohen's poetry to Paul Oster's adventures, from Carver's gentle failure to Jeff Dale's path of bliss, from tough guy detectives to jazz, from B-movies to seclusion in the countryside, from reading, translating to writing... A collection of commentaries with a strong sense of style and personal style, like a private library with a secret map.
Su Fang"In the Ward Under the Rainstorm"
Introduction: This is the latest collection of short stories of the Soviet side after "Some Moments" and "A Tale of a Foreign Land". This book has a total of eleven articles, mainly based on the 2020-2021 new works "Business Trip", "How to Kill the Man Upstairs", "My Mother's Child's Father" and other articles, but also under the new selection ideas and collection themes, it adds the "Four Seasons Song" created by the author in his early years, etc., and writes the article "Thirteen Love Letters". I hope to be able to show the trajectory of changes in the writer's creation and new attempts.
Most of these novels are emotional stories about a man and a woman, "abnormal relationships". They constantly change scenes, meet at different ages and in different identities, and stage a tragicomedy that is either bland and boring, hidden, or rainy and windy, and ends in disease. The author clearly writes about the two people, but in fact he is writing about the world and the world. Behind the relationship between the two is the current mental state and real situation of all of us today - that clutch and betrayal is not the betrayal of one person to another, it is ourselves, the betrayal of the faith of the past, the betrayal of the absolute exploration, the betrayal of today's betrayal of yesterday, the receding of the times and years in the depths of the human soul.
btr 《Shanghai Capsule》
Description: This is the latest collection of novels by Shanghai writer/translator/critic btr, or rather, the latest solo exhibition. Like collecting objects for a vast and complicated museum, Btr watches, imagines, wanders, and always slides lightly and slyly into another space in those moments of epiphany. Art intervenes between man and the world, and the 19 stories are like 19 mirror halls reflected in the virtual reality, and 19 journeys involving the virtual and the real, preserving the wonderful capsules full of myths for the urban life of our time.
Guanhe Fifty Prefectures "Xiang Army in a Troubled World"
Introduction: "The Xiang Army in a Troubled World" is a new historical novel of Guanhe Fifty Prefectures, the novel follows the time vein of the Xiang Army from its initial prototype to its formal formation and development and growth, and through a series of famous battles, it reproduces in detail the beginning and end of the xiang army's magnificent history and the vivid image of each hot-blooded general. For example, the Chu Yong general Jiang Zhongyuan, who formed the prototype of the Xiang Army, almost annihilated all the troops of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom by relying only on a mere thousand people; for example, Hu Linyi, who adopted the strategy of fighting aid from two places; such as Bao Chao, a lonely hero who made the Taiping Army feel frightened; and Du Xing'a, who was brave and fierce in Kong Wu, and so on. All these generals gradually displayed different personality characteristics in military operations one after another, and at the same time, they combined into a whole to fully express the characteristics of the Xiang Army in being able to fight well, have courage and strategy, and dare to fight and dare to rush.
Sun Ganlu's "Map of a Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains"
Introduction: The novel "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is a breakthrough work of the famous pioneer novelist Sun Ganlu. It writes about the life and death choices of Chinese intellectuals in the era of burning faith, creates a new paradigm for novelists to write major themes, elevates the theme narrative to a new artistic height, and highlights the flower of youth blooming in the revolutionary torrent and the spiritual monument built with the original heart.
Expected publication date: March 2022
Zhou Mason's "The Great Game"
Description: Zhou Meisen's new novel, the TV series of the same name starring Qin Hao, Wan Qian, Tian Yu, Tan Kai, Ke Lan, etc., is a realistic novel about the development spirit of China's manufacturing industry under the new test of the market economy era, grasping the pulse of the times and daring to innovate. The Northern Machinery Company was about to go bankrupt due to poor management, and Sun Heping, who was the general manager of overseas sales in Southeast Asia, was urgently recalled to take up the position of factory director. With a strong market awareness formed by years of hard work in the international market, Sun Heping led Beiji to join the Hanzhong Group, which was helmed by his old classmate Yang Liu, and carried out drastic reforms to the enterprise.
Lu Nei, "Everything About Farewell"
Introduction: "Everything About Farewell" is a typical road novel, it is a love book about the changes of the times. The protagonist of the novel is a writer named Li Bai, pen name Li Yibai, who has talked about more than a dozen loves, written two or three books, and the novel "The Past of Prince Lane" has been shortlisted for the Chen Liangcai Literature Award. Father Li Zhongzhong, deputy director of the agricultural machinery factory, firefighting hero model, future Alzheimer's disease patients. This book chronicles the joys and sorrows of the father and son's life from 1985 to 2019.
Li Hao,"The Legend of the Stove King"
Introduction: "The Legend of the Stove King" is the latest novel by famous writer Li Hao. With the little god Vesta Wangye as the protagonist, write about his experience of traveling to and from the Three Realms, although the King of Vesta is "the head of the family", his mana is low, and he tastes unevenness and absurdity from the human world to the underworld. The various states of the human world, the scenes of the underworld, the situation of the divine realm, the life of the aquatic tribes, the various insights of the King of The Stove About the Gods, Ghosts, and Monsters are very colorful, both as fables, and to some extent realistic.
The narrative of the novel begins in the "Change of Tumu Fort", continues in the "Change of Seizing the Door", and ends in the "Rebellion of Shi Cao", the author uses the discussion between the kings of the stove to restore the important turning point in the history of the Ming Dynasty in the past ten years, and at the same time completes the background construction of the work. The characters encountered by the King of the Stove can be regarded as representatives of all kinds of people in the world, and different behaviors and logic constitute a variety of human beings, and the novel is quite legendary.
Sissi "White-Haired A'e and Others"
Synopsis: This book is a collection of short stories that Sisi first introduced to the mainland. The book is divided into two volumes. "White-haired A'e" is included in eight short stories by Sisi from 1980 to 2000, gently presenting the lifestyle of the elderly in the city. The "Other" volumes include short stories and short chapters written by Sisi in his later years with a variety of styles and avant-garde temperament, which is the spiritual flash of Sisi's persistence in literary exploration in his later years. The propositions and plots of this collection of novels maintain The consistent high-level vision of Xixi, and with profound and meticulous thinking observation, analyze human feelings and society, and create a new model of novel art.
Ye Xin "Marriage"
Introduction: "Marriage and Death" is a new novel by the famous writer Ye Xin. The novel depicts the marriage and love story of older young women in Shanghai, which is a realistic theme work that reflects the emotional life of Shanghainese at present, and presents the unique love concept and narrative characteristics of writer Ye Xin.
Wang Xufeng,"Wangjiang Nan"
Introduction: "Wangjiangnan" is the latest novel of Mao Dun Literature Award winner Wang Xufeng in the past twenty-six years, and it is also the real third in her tea man series. From the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945 to the winter of 1964, in just a dozen years, China has undergone earth-shaking changes, and the scenery of Jiangnan has changed several times, and Hang Jiahe, the third generation of tea people of the Hang family, and his younger brother Hang Jiaping have embarked on a completely different path of life. Hang Jiahe shouldered the responsibility of inheriting the tea industry and guarding his family, under his management and reform, Hangzhou Tea not only realized the mechanical tea making, but also went to the world and became famous overseas. At the same time, the revolutionary Hang Jiaping sometimes stood at the head of the tide and sometimes disappeared in the stormy years, for the faith to move forward, nine deaths and a lifetime... This is a family spring and autumn in the Hangzhou family compound, and it is also a past of the republic that can be sung and wept.
Lu Min,"Golden River"
Introduction: "Golden River" is Lu Min's latest realist novel, which focuses on the life changes and spiritual world of Chinese in the past 40 years of reform and opening up with 40,000 words. The generation that started from scratch and became rich first is now facing many choices and conceptual collisions in the flow of wealth, Mu Youheng, He Jixiang and their sons and daughters in the past 40 years, folk wisdom, business spirit of the intermingling, from material to immaterial intergenerational transmission, from unconscious to conscious benevolence, the flow of time reflects the difficult progress of the Chinese concept of wealth.
Wan Ma Tse-dan "The story is only half told"
Introduction: This book includes ten short stories created by novelist and director Wan Ma Tse-dan in recent years, showing the life group portraits of ordinary Tibetan people: the village old man full of folk tales, the young son who is certified as the reincarnation of the living Buddha, the newborn parents who exhausted their efforts to breastfeed, and the poet who committed arson and murder... The winds of the Tibetan Plateau have blown, etching unique textures and directions for their stories. In the process of telling, the story is extended, the legend has the audience, and the myth has the people. Wan Ma Tse-dan's brushstrokes are simple and pure, embellished with a unique sense of humor, and make a positive exploration of the narrative.
Fan Ye, "Time Bear, Mirror Tiger and Invisible Kitten" (tentative name)
Description: This is the first original fantasy literature work by Fan Ye, a professor of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Peking University and a friend of felines, and the illustrations in the book are drawn by Gu Xiang, the pet blogger. The book is divided into two parts: "Animal Handbook" and "Invisible Kittens and Other Stories". In the "Animal Manual", Fan Ye, in accordance with the modern zoological classification method, fictionalized more than 40 kinds of animals in the categories of rodents, rabbits, carnivorous cats and leopards, and also made up Latin names. In "Invisible Kittens and Other Stories", Fan Ye's way of fiddling with words and stories becomes more arbitrary: stories that are interrupted just after the beginning, stories that are half told, stories that are broken into a place, stories that are off-topic, stories that can't be told...
Ni Zhanye "Unnecessary"
Introduction: This is a six-story novel that revolves around the "false accusation" unjust case of the Southern Song Dynasty, and enters the same period of history from the first-person perspective of Yue Yun, Zhao Shuo, Qin Ju and Yue Lei. Ni Zhange transforms the historical materials into clear and perceptible narratives, and reproduces the subtle psychology of different characters under the established historical framework. The central character in this series of novels is Yue Yun, the son of Yue Fei, who died at the age of twenty-three. In the eyes of the teenager, the tragic hero with the face is still a human being, and the ants who are destined to be crushed have the most precious bondage.
Nado,"The Ruins Return to Man"
Description: This is the latest work in the "Nado Notes" series. The girlfriend mysteriously disappeared, and her traces and memories in the world were erased little by some unknowable force. Reporter Na duo, who has many years of experience in the investigation of special events, chose the topic from the ruins and went to Kai County, Chongqing City, where he experienced thousands of visions of the world at the bottom of the lake. He inexplicably felt that this was inextricably linked to his disappearing girlfriend. Following the hallucinatory memories, he accidentally found someone who had a similar experience with him, and together with that person, he searched for the reason why memory and time and space were so strange.
Sun Yisheng's "Must See the Vast Land"
Introduction: This is the first novel of the emerging writer Sun Yisheng. At the beginning of the century, a crime occurred in a small town in Shandong, and Anna, a female high school student, reported to the police that her classmate Wu Song had violated her. Wu Song went to prison and died unexpectedly soon after; Anna transferred schools and has not been heard from since. This headless case has become an unsolved mystery of the small town. I am a good friend of Wu Song and have a crush on Anna; before the crime, I had a close intersection with both of them. After many years, watching this absurd drama, I finally found the truth in the mixed memories.
Wang Biao's "Evidence of Ice"
Introduction: Zhang Xiaoshen, who has achieved nothing but looks handsome, meets and falls in love with Cui Ying, a high-talented student of the philosophy department with a solid family. However, the married life of a chicken feather in a place shatters their beautiful fantasy of love. Zhang Xiaoshen is lazy by nature and idle all day. Cui Ying, alone, bears the daily expenses of the family, and is exhausted and gradually resentful. "Money" became the fuse of the two quarrels day after day, and in the last conflict, Zhang Xiaoshen reached out and covered Cui Ying's mouth and nose... Since then, the interrogation of the courier brother, the suspicion of Cui Ying's mother, and the temptation of the neighbor Lao Wang have all caused Zhang Xiaoshen to fall into endless fear and uneasiness. He was tormented by hallucinations and nightmares, and he was terrified and mentally broken. Finally, on the day of Cui Ying's birthday, the parents of both sides are about to arrive at the same time, and the secret buried in the ice cube will finally be revealed, what will be waiting for Zhang Xiaoshen?
Lindbergh "North Stream"
Introduction: "North Stream" is a new novel by Lin Bai who has been immersed in meditation for eight years. The book covers the experience of the southern matriarchal folk, the memory of women's growth, and the history of the spiritual flow of intellectuals, especially the author's in-depth observation of the social flow from the second half of the 20th century to the present. The works are ingenious in structure and language, the structural methods of notes, omissions, notes, and different words disrupt the linear narrative, and the Cantonese dialect of the "Li Yuedou Dictionary", the folk vocabulary of different words, and the poetic expression of "Flora" make the language of the novel flexible and expressive. The unique text structure not only provides multiple meanings of interpretation, but also alludes to the spatial clues of the narrative, and the annotation volume can be seen as Lin Bai "walking from the world back to the north stream", and the loose volume can be seen as "out of the north stream". The time and space clues are related to the fate of the characters, and they also show the worldview of the writer after deep thinking.
If "Words from the North" deals with the history of contemporary urban mobility after the reform and opening up, "Beiliu" moves the narrative starting point to the local life in Guangxi before the 1990s, and its narrative ambitions include revisiting tradition, local and personal experience with a contemporary perspective, and presenting the competitiveness of Chinese literature and Chinese culture in the process of globalization.
Expected publication date: April 2022
"The Goddess of Xishuangbanna"
Introduction: Re xue's works have always left a distinct impression on everyone with their unique appearance, and she is also the highest-ranked Chinese writer on the Nobel Literature Prize odds list. The novel collection "The Goddess of Xishuangbanna" includes Xue Xue's latest original short story. She is good at exaggerating and deforming the commonplace details of life to create a spiritual world beyond existence. Her writing is free and creative, and she takes a courageous posture to break free from the forces that bind traditional literature. His highly individual writing and utopian understanding of literature are refreshing.
Liang Xiaosheng "Persistence"
Introduction: This is the latest realistic novel by the famous contemporary writer Liang Xiaosheng, which focuses on the values, friendship and love of contemporary college students, as well as the professional ideals and spiritual growth of young people, full of humanistic feelings.
Ai Wei "In the Mirror"
Introduction: "In the Mirror" is Ai Wei's latest realist masterpiece. The novel travels through four countries: China, Burma, the United States, and Japan, cleverly weaving a web of love-hate and doubtful mysteries. The novel tells the story of an architect of international prestige who, after experiencing the changes in the lives of his wife and children, rethinks the meaning of life and seeks his own redemption.
Luo Weizhang's Hidden History
Introduction: The novel "Hidden History" takes the name of secrecy and the metaphor of history as a metaphor, and under the appearance of local writing, it excavates into the dark spiritual land that the protagonist Gui Pingchang is unaware of, leading readers to carry out a high-quality human adventure and pursuit. Like the protagonist Gui Pingchang, after entering the mouth of the cave and finding a complete corpse, we thought that we would implicate a murder case in the village, thus entering the logical reasoning of factual analysis, but unknowingly walked into his narrative trap, through the undercurrent and tunnel, approaching the fear behind the fear, the murder behind the murder.
Zhou Xiaofeng,"Small Front Teeth"
Introduction: "Small Incisors" is the latest fairy tale work of Zhou Xiaofeng, a winning writer of the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award, which tells the story of a very brave dream-eating elf - "Small Front Teeth". The "little front teeth" living in the Elven Valley are keen to go out of the Elven Valley, eat the children's nightmares to the light, strive to guard the children's dreams, and create magic and miracles so that the children are no longer afraid. The little front tooth was also expelled from the elven valley because he kept walking out of the elven valley to eat dreams, and he overcame difficulties and inner fears to eventually grow into a dream adjuster. This book mirrors the winning work of the 11th National Outstanding Children's Literature Award, "Little Wings", telling the story of running away from childhood. Expected publication date: April 2022
Zhao Baitian, "My Great-Grandmother"
Introduction: This book is Zhao Baitian's latest novel, the story is set in Shanghai and southern towns during the War of Resistance Against Japan. "My" great-grandmother was a young literary and artistic woman from a large family in a small southern town, and under the influence of the new cultural movement and revolutionary thought, she was full of enthusiasm and dreams for the revolution, hoping to devote her life to a wider river. She was willing to sacrifice herself unconditionally for the revolution, even marriage and love. The life history of a small-town woman was rewritten, which was also a microcosm of the image of thousands of women engaged in the revolutionary movement at that time.
Old Begonia "Emergency Contact"
Introduction: The novella collection "Emergency Contact" includes the novels that have attracted much attention in recent years by Old Begonia, "Emergency Contact", "Ten Light City", "Orange Red Silver White", "Xiao Xu and Lai Wen", and "New Year". Women who move to the edge of the city suddenly become middle-class upstarts who are urgent contacts for strangers, exploring the boundaries of life in the midst of busy city life and inner hesitation, looking for new enthusiasm and affirmation. Since Shenzhen became a special zone in the 1970s, a large number of immigrants from different foreign countries have poured into this emerging city that is gradually being shaped by Mandarin, and a unique special zone culture has been established. Old Begonia integrates her personal growth history into the inner changes of immigrants in the wider SAR, establishes her own literary territory in the midst of prosperity, and constantly writes about the concern and concern of urban immigrants for their new hometown. What is particularly noteworthy is that many of the shining verses in the novel are from the author's hand, enriching the language of the novel and making the whole work full of modernity, like an inner monster swallowing the urban landscape.
Zhang Guixing, "Sharon Grandmother"
Description: This is the masterpiece of MCA literary heavyweight Zhang Guixing, the first time to launch a Chinese Simplified edition. It uses random needle embroidery, multi-line structure, cleverly mixed with the novel interest of adventure romance, accurately conveying the thick atmosphere of desire, sex, slaughter, blood, and violence in the rainforest.
Han Dong,"The World of Man"
Introduction: "The World of Man" is a new collection of works written for Han Dong's "return" of short stories, including "Darkness", "Wolf Trail", "Brand New World", "Smoking in the Hall", "Couples at the Door", "Buddhism", "Big Sale", "Have We Met? "Animals", "Spring Shoots", "The World of Man", "Rabbit Death fox sorrow", "Zhengrong Years", etc., a total of sixteen novels. Of these, thirteen were completed within the last fifteen months, and the other three were written within the last ten years and have never been published.
Each novel in the book maintains Han Dong's usual style, that is, coldness, rigor, subtlety, superb storytelling skills and amazing insight. Han Dong understands the things that are obvious but not discovered by us, and becomes the quiet but thrilling narrator of our time. With its sensitivity to control the touch of words, the intersection of gentleness and sharpness, straight to the hearts of the world, the novel all reveals the author's deep understanding and love for the world.
Expected publication date: May 2022
Ting Shu-hee, Ambition
Introduction: The novel "Wild Hope" is the third part of the "rural trilogy" of female writer Fu Xiuying, continuing the "Fang Village" story of "Strange Upper" and "Other Hometown", and narrating the life changes and fate twists of the rural female Cuitai family. Taking the point as the face, seeing the big with the small, and radiating the vicissitudes and great changes that have taken place in the entire "Fangcun" society in the new era with the changes in the life of one or several households, reflecting the new situation, new atmosphere and new prospects that the Chinese countryside continues to generate in the torrent of the times. The joys and sorrows of the heroine Cuitai family, sour, sweet and bitter, and spicy hook up with the rich and complex expressions of the times in the Chinese countryside, and the twists and turns and ups and downs in the daily life of these peasant families, the wind and grass, the mountains and rivers are low, and they also echo with the ups and downs of the life of the times.
Yi Zhou's "Collection of Ugly Stories"
Introduction: This book is the fourth part of the "Chronicles of Man" series. Following the "BingShen Story Collection", "Ding You's Story Collection" and "Gengzi Story Collection", Yizhou once again summarized and reviewed the past year with brushstrokes close to contemporary urban life. In the year of Gengzi, we encountered a flood of accidents and struggled; in the year of hardship, how do we face the times and our hearts? This collection of novels, titled Ganzhi, will rethink urban people and their views on the city in the "post-epidemic" era in a literary way.
Ye Mi "Immortality"
Introduction: The novel takes the small city of Wuguo in jiangnan in the late 1970s as the environmental background, and takes the marriage and love life of female worker Kong Yanni as the main plot, showing the life state and life situation of a group of ordinary people in the era of drastic changes, and presents the patience, tenacity and enthusiasm of ordinary people, pinning on Ye Mi's pursuit of an ideal life and ideal humanity: no matter how ruthless the wheel of history is, but human life flows endlessly.
Yang Zhengguang, "The Viewer Is At Ease" (tentative name)
Introduction: The protagonist of "The Viewer is Free" is a person named Delin, who prides himself on reading people and intellectuals, and lives by looking at (seeing) life, including looking at (seeing) himself, and calling it (seeing) is also a kind of reading, taking this as the method of life. In any situation, including danger, he can also ensure that he lives freely and can vary from person to person, and academics can also find suitable reasons for their actions in layman's terms, including watching neighbors kill people on the spot and seeing their homes demolished. And all the events occurred after the wife filed for divorce, and he could even make the divorce like a piece of dried meat hanging on the wall, becoming an uncertain, academic expression can be "Schrödinger's cat". "Freedom" is both a philosophical concept and a secular expression of the comfort of life.
Sun Pin's "The Grace of the Lion"
Introduction: This is Sun Pin's novella collection, which contains three works: "The Grace of the Lion", "Daughter of the Nile" and "North of the Gods". Sun Pin focused his attention on a group of urban small people, and with skillful and powerful brushwork, explored a series of important life problems such as how to face the past, face death, and face injury.
Chen Haoji's "Magic Flute"
Introduction: "The Magic Flute" is a collection of "fairy tale reasoning" stories by mystery novel writer Chen Haoji. It is the "original heart" of his creative career, and it is also the first time to launch Chinese Simplified version. "Fairy tale reasoning" is a new attempt to integrate reasoning and fairy tales, through rigorous examination, not only perfectly restore the dark atmosphere of medieval superstition, but also reshape the bedside story that readers are familiar with, inject a new life of "Benge reasoning", and condense the amazing reading magic.
Fan Yusu "Long Farewell Reunion"
Introduction: In 2018, an article "I am Fan Yusu" made Fan Yusu, a sister-in-law of Beijing parenting, become famous overnight. Topics such as North Drift, migrant workers, and urban villages have exploded across the Internet. Faced with the hot identity of Internet celebrities, in the face of the swarming media, in the face of huge business opportunities, she calmly closed her doors and concentrated on writing in the rental house of Pi Village. Three years later, she completed her autobiographical novel Reunion, which she claims to be the only work in her life.
Tian Er's "Secret Essentials"
Introduction: The mysterious writer Gao Cang's martial arts work "Heavenly Silkworm Secret Essentials" was robbed by thousands of people, causing quite a stir in the book collection industry. Tian Er's latest novel, The Secret Essentials, is about martial arts, about books, about the literary years of the 1980s. The novel has a strong martial arts feeling, and it is integrated into the rapid changes of the times, and tian er's humorous narration also hides a deep nostalgia for the past years.
Expected publication date: June 2022
Ma Weidu "Back Shadow 2"
Introduction: The "Back Shadow" series of books was written by Ma Weidu for his deceased relatives and friends, and the characters in the books have different identities and different relatives, all of which have left a deep imprint on his heart. The first series was launched in June 2021 and has been reprinted several times in the past six months, and has been enthusiastically read by a wide range of readers. Some readers said: "Zhu Ziqing's "Back Shadow" is the hardship of his father's generation; Ma Weidu's "Back Shadow" is the wealth left by the deceased to the younger generations. Behind every story is a man who once lived. Ma Weidu used a pen to firmly leave the backs of these former friends in the human world. The second series is expected to be released in June 2022 and includes characters such as I.M. Pei, Xie Yuan, Li Yong, and Zhao Yingjun. This is not only the process of Ma Weidu's recollection of his relationship with various characters, but also a lesson in understanding life.
Wang Congwei's "Still Life"
Introduction: This is a novel by Wang Congwei, editor-in-chief of United Literature magazine, telling the story of a wife's outing and intimate monologue, and launched Chinese Simplified version for the first time. The husband suddenly becomes violent, and Meijun decides to take her daughter away from home and temporarily take refuge in the apartment provided by Anan, her closest friend in college. Unable to return to the company, hating his parents in his hometown, and unwilling to bow to his husband... When the real life suddenly collapsed, she could only confine herself to the apartment, repeatedly nagging the memories of the past full of fragments, holes, and cracks, such as not giving up the weak connection with others. At the final moment, "what was originally just a few minutes has now become a day long, and when I look back, I realize that the day is over, and I am still here." All the everyday scenes around her have the dual meaning of beauty and pain, touching the silence, like a still life.
Yang Wei Yu Bin "Oral History of Yang Wei"
Introduction: "I don't know how many adventures people have experienced in their lives, but at my age, I have experienced warlord melee, the War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, and the founding of New China, and after that, etc., although I am a commoner, I also have a lot of interesting things to say." ”
Born in Tianjin in 1919, Yang Jingru studied in the Department of Foreign Languages of Southwest United University and the Department of Foreign Languages of National Central University. He was a translator of the Translation Committee of the Nanjing National Compilation Museum and a teacher in the Department of Foreign Languages of Nanjing Normal University. His older brother Yang Xianyi is a famous translator, his older sister Yang Minru is an expert in classical literature, and her husband, Zhao Ruihong, is a professor in the Department of Chinese at Nanjing University.
Mr. Yang Wei is 103 years old this year, and Yu Bin, a professor at the College of Literature of Nanjing University, has spent ten years sitting with her, and a century of people and events slowly unfolds in the narrative, which is the best gift of the century that centenarians have dedicated to this century that brings her tears and luck.
Expected publication date: August 2022
Luo Xin,"Trekking the Mountains and The Sea for You" (tentative name)
Introduction: This collection of essays brings together the insights and reflections accumulated by Luo Xin, a professor in the Department of History of Peking University, over the years of travel and study around the world. From the Amu Darya River to Samarkand to Indiana and Easter Island, the author finds branches of history in many obliterated stories, subtle craftsmanship, and forgotten character experiences. In the age of the pandemic, this book has awakened our gaze to distant worlds.
Lan Xiaolong's "War and Worship"
Brief Introduction: "War and Worship" is a novel created by Lan Xiaolong after "Winter and the Lion" (the original work of the movie "Chosin Lake"),reflecting the bloody struggle of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army in the Korean battlefield. The Korean War was a showdown of flesh and steel, a war that made the weapons experts of the time despair. Through the experience of Li Moyin, a senior staff officer of our army, who went to fight in the DPRK with the general headquarters of the Volunteer Army, "War and Worship" depicts the heroic battles of the Chinese Volunteer Army on the Korean battlefield, shapes the image of many characters such as commanders and fighters at all levels of the Volunteer Army and grass-roots fighters, and vividly shows the efforts and great sacrifices made by the Chinese people on all fronts at that time to seek independence, independence, and happiness.
Wang Yin, "Beauty at Low Temperatures"
Introduction: This book is a collection of new poems and selected poems by Wang Yin, an important poet among the "third generation poets" of contemporary China, which includes his latest 100 creations in recent years and selects his well-known works that have been widely circulated and popular in the past. In addition to the poetry text, the book also adds multimedia elements such as video poems, recitation fragments, dances, and photographic works, which integrate Wang Yin's multiple explorations in the combination of poetry and art in recent years in the form of two-dimensional codes. Wang Yin's text is light and flowing, breaking the limitations of time and place, free and comfortable, coupled with the comprehensive presentation of various art forms, enriching the connotation of poetry, and is the first diversified "three-dimensional poetry collection".
Yan Jingming, "Lu Xun and the Communists"
Introduction: Taking Lu Xun as a clue, this book focuses on the exchanges between Lu Xun and Chinese communists, especially the early leaders and cultural cadres of the party, thus profoundly presenting the formation of the party's literary and artistic policies and lines, how the party's literary and creative ideas are mature, and expounding Lu Xun's profound friendship with many revolutionary leaders and a high degree of spiritual conformity. The book focuses on the people of interaction, including Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao, Qu Qiubai, Feng Xuefeng, Zhou Enlai, and Mao Zedong.
This is a unique research work of Lu Xun, combined with Lu Xun's literary works, life and times, through the content of this book, we can further expound Lu Xun's acceptance, devotion and expectation of advanced literary and artistic ideas, ardent expectations for national rejuvenation and national transformation, and positive attitude towards struggle. At the same time, this book is also a relatively complete combing and rediscovery of the literary and artistic line of the Communist Party of China, which has strong academic value and expansiveness.
Expected publication date: September 2022