Literary Good Book List : Selected as a good book in April 2022
The literary good book list is jointly recommended by more than 50 professional literary publishing institutions under the Literature and Art Publishing Work Committee of the Publishing Association of China, and voted by the presidents and editors-in-chief of each society, and selects the latest 18 good literary books of the month, and regularly and authoritatively recommends them every month. The following are the good books shortlisted in April 2022, in no particular order.
"Across the Ocean to Send You"
Author: Shi Yifeng
Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
Publication date: March 2022
Reasons for selection
As the old saying goes, the next generation is dear.
Grandpa died suddenly, but NaDou accidentally found a "foreign body" in the ashes that did not seem to belong to Grandpa. What is it? Why is it here? The former hutong stubborn lord, today's national tide teenager, decided to find out. Who knows, this is just the beginning. As Master Li, the furnace worker, said, everything in this world is tied together!
When the albanian trumpet sounded in the mobile phone video of the bean, when the little yinqing came from the other side of the ocean with a new clue, the bean decided, packed his bags, and went to the American continent for his grandfather...
"Chinese Peach and Plum"
Author: Liang Xiaosheng
Publisher: Writers Press
Publication date: March 2022
Reasons for selection
In 2000, Li Xiaodong and Xu Ran, freshmen in the department of Chinese, met for the first time on the train to the university, and after a small conflict, their impressions of each other were not good. Neither he nor she expected that this would be the beginning of a long entanglement or entanglement.
Preaching, teaching, dispelling puzzles... In the university, the rational people are in the world, but outside the ivory tower, they are under siege. Will the tragedy of Juan Sheng and Zijun in "Wounded Death" really be staged in another form in the new century?
Hometown, provincial capital, Beijing... The twists and turns of life trajectory are nothing more than finding a place to live. I always have to wait until I am tired of running, and then I suddenly find that this place of peace of mind is my hometown.
Rear Wing Abandonment
Author: [U.S.] Walter Tevez
Translator: So
Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
Publication date: March 2022
Reasons for selection
"Rear Wing Abandonment" tells the story of an 8-year-old orphan girl in Kentucky in the late 1950s, Beth Harmon, who stumbled upon chess and eventually grew into a top chess master. Relying on her talent and pure love, Beth, who has a quiet personality, fights all the way into the competitive world dominated by men, like a humble creep on a chessboard who gradually becomes an empress. The book has a compact plot, showing the brilliant professional life and lonely and anxious inner world of a talented chess girl, and also portraying how an orphan can achieve self-education.
In addition, the young writer, translator, and translator of the book have a wonderful dialogue with Hou Yifan, the world champion of chess and the technical adviser of the book, "Beyond the Chess Game".
Golden River
Author: Lu Min
Publisher: Yilin Publishing House
Publication date: March 2022
Reasons for selection
Lu Min devotes nearly 400,000 words to the great courage of digging into reality, presenting a surging realist tone; as a contemporary of reform and opening up, she writes about this time and place, blending with the times, and depicting the history of material creation and spiritual transformation of the Chinese people since the 1980s. The novel penetrates the life history of the individual with a large historical pattern, and tells a story about morality, wealth and the communion of the times in detail.
"Making a Pot"
Author: Xu Feng
Publisher: Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication date: April 2022
Reasons for selection
The purple sand pot is the most typical Chinese expression and Chinese expression, and a pot contains Chinese philosophy of life and life code. Make a pot with ancient methods and interpret them in a vivid and beautiful literary way.
The book "Making Pots" was completely restored by Ge Taozhong, a disciple of Gu Jingzhou of the Cloth Pot Sect, with the work of wearing water drops and stones, and was recorded, investigated and created by Mr. Xu Feng, a famous writer, Jiangnan cultural scholar and researcher of purple sand culture, who recorded, investigated and created ingenious texts for several years. This is a four-handed joint bullet of a famous writer and a pot maker, which presents the ancient craftsmanship, cultural flow, historical development and spiritual connotation of purple sand in a panoramic way.
"Making a Pot" comprehensively shows the technique and mental method, spirit and connotation of the Ancient Chinese Purple Sand Jug, highlighting the beauty of literature and the beauty of purple sand. This is a work with both literary aesthetic value, cultural historical value, craft academic value and skill transmission guidance value, which is a review and restoration of the extraordinary skills of the purple sand masters, and a complete display of the history, culture, spirit and the most advanced craft of the purple sand, with the paradigm value of the master and the unique inheritance value.
Suzhou Creek
Author: Haifei
Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication date: March 2022
Reasons for selection
"Suzhou Creek" is the winner of the People's Literature Award, the original author and screenwriter of the TV series "Sting" and "Sparrow", Hai Fei's new masterpiece, with poetic language, captures the hearts of the world lovers in the era of change, and recreates the sentimental portrait of last month.
Such a story can only happen in 1949; such a character can only exist on the banks of the Suzhou River. A series of homicides occurred bizarrely, and police officer Chen Baoshan gradually discovered the truth and found the value of his own existence in the process of investigating the case.
Algorithm
Author: Organizing Committee of Global Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Awards
Publisher: Ten Thousand Volumes Publishing Co., Ltd
Publication date: February 2022
Reasons for selection
"Algorithm" includes the wonderful works of short and medium stories of the 2020 Nebula Awards, including "Anthropomorphic Algorithm" (Yang Wanqing), "Life Algorithm" (Chen Qifan) and "Celestial Sacrifice " (Baoshu)", all of which represent the latest and best writing level of Chinese science fiction. Among them, the article "Anthropomorphic Algorithm" mainly focuses on the upcoming era of artificial intelligence, and the fate of artificial intelligence technology and human beings is closely related to the theme of the theme - the problems caused by artificial intelligence are not technical problems, but about human nature of human beings themselves, involving scientific, political, philosophical and moral humanistic concerns.
Yasunari Kawabata: The Two-Faced Man
Author:[Sun] Atsushi Koyano
Translator: Zhao Zhongming
Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication date: April 2022
Reasons for selection
Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Yasunari Kawabata's death, the first imported version of Yasunari Kawabata's authoritative biography. Through the meticulous analysis and research of a large number of diaries, letters and related historical materials by Yasunari Kawabata, the author of this book uses the objective brushstrokes of anti-praise biography, from the ups and downs of childhood experiences, bitter and helpless love stories to the mysterious mystery of suicide, comprehensively and three-dimensionally outlines the legendary and controversial life of the peak figure of Japanese literature, and strives to uncover the hidden and complex inner world of this Japanese literary figure, subverting the long-term reader's solidified cognition and positioning of this literary giant. Show the little-known double face of Yasunari Kawabata.
Kafka's Biography: The Critical Years
Author: [de] Reiner Stacher
Translator: Huang Xueyuan Cheng Weiping
Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
Publication date: April 2022
Reasons for selection
The German Kafka scholar Reiner Stach traveled back and forth between the United States and Europe, spending more than a decade processing more than 4,000 pages of newspapers, letters, and literary chapters (many of which had not been published before), recreating the panorama of Kafka's life, writing, and work from 1910 to 1915, which was also the most important stage of his life. He wrote a series of important works in those critical years - "Judgment", "Metamorphosis", "Missing Person", "Litigation", etc., thus paving the artistic path that he will always follow to the end.
"Peace Ark - Full Record of the Mission of the 866 Hospital Ship of the People's Navy"
Author: Sha Zhiliang
Publisher: Anhui Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication date: April 2022
Reasons for selection
The long-form reportage was selected as the "Key Topics for Military Literature and Art for the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of the Party" of the General Office of the Central Military Commission, the National "14th Five-Year Plan" Key Publications Publishing Planning Project, and the "14th Five-Year Plan" Key Publications Planning Project of Anhui Province.
The author uses documentary techniques to write about the major theme of building a "community with a shared future for mankind", and comprehensively records the glorious course of the 9 visits of the hospital ship "Peace Ark" to carry out its mission and mission. In the novel form of cross-narrative in volume A and volume B, the main body shows the strategic stratagem of the mission commander across the world, the heroic group portraits of the officers and men of the mission fighting against the wind and waves, the skillful skills of the army doctors on the operating table, the bits and pieces in the lives of ordinary crew members, the historical customs of the countries in the world, the inner world of the officers and men of the mission and the people of all countries...
The hospital ship "Peace Ark" Huai Ren sailed to shoulder the great righteousness, fraternal dedication to save lives and help the injured, broke the waves full of the concept of peace, shook hands with the world, and showed the world a credible, lovely and respectable image of China.
Zoology: The Animal Problem from Heidegger to Derrida
Author: [U.S.] Matthew Caracco
Translator: Pang Hongrui
Publisher: Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication date: January 2022
Reasons for selection
The book was first published in 2008 as the author's first monograph. In this book, Matthew Carraco draws on the study of animal behavior, evolution, and Heidegger, discussing Levinas's question of the nature and scope of ethics, Agamben's "anthropological machine" view, and a non-anthropocentric ethic pioneered by Derrida to challenge the anthropocentrism of the continental philosophical tradition by arguing politically, ethically, and ontologically that the line between humans and animals can and should be erased. Carraco called for the abolition of the stereotype of the distinction between humans and animals, and for a new way of looking at and living with animals.
"Jump In"
Author: [de] Daniela Crirn
Translator: Li Shixun
Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication date: February 2022
Reasons for selection
Paula, Utite, Brida, Marika, and Jolind grew up on the borders of the German Democratic Republic, and they were either friends, lovers, or sisters, and their stories were both independent and interconnected. Wives, daughters, and mothers give them identity and pressure, and the desire for love and independence leaves them with and must face difficulties. They tell us with their own experiences that life is a difficult walk on a tightrope, and we must always beware of the danger of falling from a high place. After enduring nightmares and biting again and again, can they find another possibility of life?
People and Things: From the Perspective of the Body (Humanities Translation Series)
Author: [Italian] Roberto Esposito
Translator: Tai Bei
Publisher: Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication date: January 2022
Reasons for selection
What is the relationship between people and things? How does the body change this relationship? In this book, the author argues that starting from the body, not from things or people, can help us reconsider the status of both.
From the very beginning, our civilization has been based on a strict and clear distinction between man and thing, on the instrumental domination of man over things. This antagonism originated in ancient Rome and continues throughout modern society. In our current global market, there are more and more contradictions about people and things. Although this distinction may seem clear and necessary to us, what we constantly see in legal, economic and technical practice is a reversal of perspective: certain categories of people are being assimilated by things, while certain types of things take on personal characteristics.
Roberto Esposito, with his usual rigor, believed that there was a path out of this paradox, a path made up of new views built on the body. Whether human or physical, the body becomes the decisive factor in rethinking the concepts and values that govern our philosophical, legal, and political vocabulary.
"West Neighbor Photo"
Author: Shen Dongzi
Publisher: Hundred Flowers Literary and Art Publishing House
Publication date: February 2022
Reasons for selection
This book selects nearly 100 literary, artist and cultural celebrities from the 19th to the 20th centuries around the world, collects and tells their life experiences, creative stories and anecdotes in the form of pictures and texts, including Kafka, Joyce, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wilde and other literary figures, as well as chaplin, Marilyn Monroe and other literary celebrities, as well as some literary and artistic celebrities who have outstanding achievements in their own fields and regions, but have not yet been familiar to the public readers, and will be related to the personality of the characters. The combination of works and anecdotes shows the connection between their personal lives and the creation of works from many angles, covering representatives of different development periods and genres of various cultures, especially in the field of literature, over the past hundred years.
In Search of Xu Chuanxian: From Shanghai to Beijing
Author: Ten years of chopping wood
Publisher: Modern Publishing House
Publication date: April 2022
Reasons for selection
In Search of Xu Chuanxian: From Shanghai to Beijing is a biographical work about The Chinese postal man Xu Chuanxian. The author's ten years of chopping wood places Xu Chuanxian's life in the background of the times and the network of interpersonal communication to observe, analyze and present, with Mr. Xu Chuanxian's activities from Shanghai to Beijing as the main line, and Mr. Xu Chuanxian's father, Mr. Xu Xichun (founder of the Qingpu Branch of the Red Cross Society of China) as the secondary line, truly, richly and profoundly presenting the legendary, wonderful but painful life of a generation of Chinese intellectuals in the 20th century, witnessing the development of China's postal power from weak to strong, reflecting the life trajectory and destiny of a generation of intellectuals.
The Story of the Mountain: Love and Loss in the Garbage City
Author: [In] Soumia Roy
Translator: Jia Yanping
Publisher: China Workers Publishing House
Publication date: April 2022
Reasons for selection
It's a modern allegory of garbage and consumption, about a city struggling with lust, an eighteen-story mountain of garbage, and the people who call it home. For decades, scavengers have been scouring for anything that can be resold or recycled. Their stories—love, rebirth, money, breakthroughs—are all shaped by the influx of second-hand objects from the outside world. With a fire, the world they managed with their hearts began to fall apart...
"And Other Poems"
Author: [Ink] José Juan Tablada
Translator: Zhang Lijun
Publisher: Lijiang Publishing House Co., Ltd
Publication date: March 2022
Reasons for selection
Jose Juan Tablada was fond of Oriental culture and, with his unique works, realized the transition from Modernist literature in Mexico to avant-garde. This book is a selection of four collections of poems by José Juan Tablada, which fully demonstrates the poet's achievements in the creation of pictorial poetry and haiku. Among them, the first "Li Bai" and other poems is the pinnacle of the poet's pictorial poetry, in addition to the traditional "poetic drawing" mode, Tablada also tried the forms of "picture with poem" and "picture poem mutual interpretation". The second part, "One Day..." (fusion poems), and the third part, "Flower Jar" (dissociated lyric poems), are sister pieces, and the poet uses the theme of natural imagery to use Spanish to expound in the form of Japanese haiku, and embeds the flowers, birds, fish and insects of the New World into the poetry of the East, resulting in a special exotic atmosphere. In the last "Bazaar" (Mexican poetry), Tabrada wrote poems about the daily life of mexican people, combined with Mexican paper cuts and paintings, showing authentic Mexican elements.
The Crow
Author: [American] Edgar Allan Poe
Translator: Cao Minglun
Publisher: Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House Co., Ltd
Publication date: April 2022
Reasons for selection
This book is a collection of classic literary works by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, selected by the well-known Poe research expert Cao Minglun, divided into two volumes, including the novel "The Adventures of A. Go pym", the poem "The Crow" and 24 short stories including "Black Cat", "Golden Beetle", "Leaked Heart" and other classics. With novel ideas, diverse genres, and rich content, this book is a concentrated display of Alan Poe's detective novels, science fiction novels, horror novels, poetry, and a series of works that have brought far-reaching influence to later European and American writers. The book is also accompanied by classic illustrations by famous illustrators of the same period, which is a high-quality publication with both literary and aesthetic properties, with high publishing value and collection value.
Editor: Wang Hao
Review: Hu Xiaozhou