After the Lantern Festival is finished, the Spring Festival is over. Various publishing institutions have successively issued New Year's book lists. What blockbuster literature will be produced in this year? We have compiled a literary list for a wide range of readers. Some are already fresh on the market in January, and some are still waiting quietly in the printing factory.
Famous new works have been produced in close connection with reality
As an important town for original literature publishing, the People's Literature Publishing House is expected to launch a number of blockbuster works this year, including the new works of Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan.
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Yilin Publishing House quickly unveiled blockbuster works at the beginning of the year, including Liu Liangcheng's "Bemba" and Ye Zhaoyan's "The Road to Father". Both books are currently available. The former has shaped a country where there is no aging, no death, and everyone lives in the 25-year-old Bemba country. The latter is the book of Ye Zhaoyan's life that first confronted, paid tribute to and reflected on his father's life with more than 60 years of life experience. In the book, the author asks: What exactly happened to us on the road to our father? In March, Yilin Publishing House will also launch Lu Min's "Golden River", which is also the work that won last year's Phoenix Literature Award, and is written to the era of the same generation of reform and opening up.
In the past two years, Wang Yao, a scholar and writer who has created a lot of scholars and writers, has also created a new historical essay " Daily String Song: The Echoes of Southwest United University " , which is also very exciting. Writer Lin Sen's latest collection of novels, "We Are All Silent in the Group", will also be launched by Yilin Publishing House, including new works such as "The Poet", "Going Straight East is Lingshan Town", "Waking Up in the Rainy Morning" and so on.
Writers Publishing House has launched a number of blockbuster works by famous artists, including Feng Jicai's "A Cave in the Studio", "Danube Gorge", Zhou Meisen's "The Great Game", Liang Xiaosheng's "Persistence" (tentative name), Ran Zhengwan's "Bai HaoGuang", Feng Junke's "Doubtful Soldiers", Guan Renshan's "Day and Night", Ye Xin's "Marriage and Death", Lao Teng's "Copper Row", etc. are very rich.
"A Cave in the Studio" takes Feng Jicai's studio as the starting point, depicting one of the objects and one thing, the chronicle of the person, revealing the mystery of his soul. "Danube Gorge" is Feng Jicai's latest collection of short stories, a total of 5 stories, the style belongs to the urban strange story. Mason Chow's The Great Game will be launched in March. The book is a realistic novel about China's manufacturing industry in the new test of the market economy era, grasping the pulse of the times and daring to innovate. The new work "Persistence" by Liang Xiaosheng, the original author of the popular "Human World", will be launched in April. The book focuses on the values, friendship, love and professional ideals and spiritual growth of young people, and is a solid new work that faces reality and is full of humanistic feelings.
This year, Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House will launch a series of works by writer Ai Wei. In the Mirror, to be published in April, is his latest masterpiece of realism. 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.
Mao Dun Literature Prize winner Wang Xufeng's latest novel, Wang Jiangnan, was launched in January at the Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House. The book is the real final chapter of the "Tea Man" series in the author's heart, and for the first time, it fully presents the century-old changes in China from the perspective of personal history and family history. "Mo Yan's Works Youth Reading Book Series" (all 6 volumes) will also be published.
Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House will launch new books such as Ye Mi's "Immortality", Luo Weizhang's "Hidden History", Guo Ping's "Guangling San", Ge Liang's "Private Room Book", and Lin Nabei's "Digging the Ground Every Day". Among them, "Immortality" takes the small city of Wuguo in jiangnan at the end of the 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 living conditions of a group of ordinary people in the era of drastic changes. "Hidden History" is a novel with major breakthroughs in thematic interpretation and artistic expression in the creation of Chinese vernacular novels, and it is another innovative work of "discovery novel" after Luo Weizhang's novels "History of Sound" and "History of Silence".
Readers have been looking forward to Sun Ganlu's novel "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" for many years, which is expected to be released in March. The work writes about the life-and-death choices of Chinese intellectuals in the era of burning faith, and celebrates the noble spirit of revolutionary martyrs who fought and sacrificed for the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House will also launch Lu Nei's "Everything About Farewell" and Tian Er's "Secret Essentials", which tells about the ups and downs of the black book market.
New books from Huacheng Publishing House include Wang Meng's Monkeys and Teenagers. Through the perspective of a novelist, Wang Meng tells the life of a foreign literary expert. Other works include Zhang Wei's "Silent Waiting", "River Bay", And Tanaka's "Seventeen Years Old".
Liang Hongxin's book "Bird's Nest" (tentative name) curated by Century Wenjing will also be launched this year. The book is Liang Hong's latest masterpiece after the "Liang Zhuang" series, documenting the resonance of the fate of Chinese women and the times. Based on true events, Liang Hong restored the growth history of a female entrepreneur through multiple interviews.
Novelist and director Wan Ma Tse-dan's "The Story Is Only Half Told" is expected to be published in March. The book was curated by CITIC Publishing Dafang and includes 10 short stories created by the author in recent years, showing the life of ordinary Tibetan people. Yi Zhou's "Collection of Ugly Stories" is expected to be launched in May, and this collection of novels with the theme of dry branches will rethink urban people and their urban views in the "post-epidemic" era in a literary way. Writer Yuan Ling's The Life of Han Shui is a non-fiction work that combines natural literature and a sense of reality, and is expected to be published in October.
Liu Zhenyun's "Selected Works of Liu Zhenyun" will be produced by the "Yangtze River New Century". The book selects Liu Zhenyun's representative works that have won numerous awards and are highly praised by readers, including three novels with the word "one" and two novels with the word "I", which can be seen from Liu Zhenyun's creative vein from the initial cry of the literary world of "A Place of Chicken Feathers" to the "One Sentence Top Ten Thousand Sentences" style, and then to the autumn of life like "One Day and Three Autumns".
East China Normal University Press is expected to launch a new collection of poems and selected poems by Wang Yin, an important poet in the "Third Generation of Poets", in August, including 100 of his recent creations. Bringing together Fan Ye, Bao Huiyi, Ni Zhange, Ai Luo, Wang Ao, Zhou Weichi, six contemporary active young scholars' poetic treatises, "Orange in the Snow - Poets on Poetry", is also a new book this year.
Guangxi Normal University Press's new book this year includes Yu Song's "Rice Temple", which is a story about tiny individuals who step by step in the ancestral ancestral hall to die and regain the divinity and dignity of life.
Chen Nianxi, who had two non-fiction books published last year, will return to the "old line" this year to produce a collection of poems. Curated by Guo Mai, "Poems of Chen Nian Xi" includes more than 100 new works by the author since 2018. Jia Pingwa's essay collection "Blossoms in the Mirror" will be released in April.
Readers who prefer the works of mainland Hong Kong and Taiwan will welcome the "Zhu Astronomical Works" that is still planned by the Republic of China. This is the first time that Zhu Tiantian's works have been published in a complete collection in the mainland, with a total of 10 volumes.
Wang Congwei, editor-in-chief of Taiwan's United Literature Magazine, wrote a novel called "Still Life", which writes about the complexity of loneliness, the will to survive and the irreversible suffering, which was planned by Houlang and will be released in the near future. Also curated by Hou Lang is the masterpiece "Salon Grandmother" by the MCA heavyweight writer Zhang Guixing.
Keep the pulse of the times Focus on major themes
In February, Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House launched Ji Dongliang's Notes on Xihaigu. Rooted in the deep Land of Xihai, Ningxia, the author has written a "history of entrepreneurship" in the new era, recording a large number of new people of the times who have emerged in the cause of poverty alleviation, as well as the light of the spirit of the times shining on them.
Chen Yingsong's novel "Tianlu Bay" was launched by the Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House in January, which takes the 40 years of reform and opening up as the background of the times and writes the long and arduous entrepreneurial history of the peasants in the Jianghan Plain who have achieved poverty alleviation through struggle.
The sichuan literature and art publishing house recently published "Chuanxiang Biography", the central propaganda department's 2021 theme publishing key publications, can be described as a benchmark work reflecting the overall well-off process, and write about the great changes in the countryside in the 40 years of reform.
Henan Literature and Art Publishing House will launch Zhao Dahe's "Burning Castle", which composes a history of the struggle of the Tengchong people to fight against the Japanese invasion in blood, and a symphony of the indomitable nirvana rebirth of the Chinese nation. Author Hong Ke's posthumous work "The Book of Dzungar" is also expected to be released this year.
New books by Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House include Tao Chun's "Bright Future" and so on. The book is a collection of novellas that reflects the touching deeds of ordinary soldiers and junior officers who silently sacrificed their youth and even their lives for the founding of the republic.
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Source: China Publishing Media Business Daily
Reviewer: Pan Qiwen
Editor: Min Sun