The Literary Good Books List is jointly recommended by more than 50 professional literary publishing institutions under the Literary and Art Publishing Committee of the Publishers Association of China, and 15 of the latest literary good books are selected every month and regularly recommended authoritatively. Here are the shortlisted books for October 2022 (sorted by voting results).
"The Gate of Yi Feng"
Author: Ye Zhaoyan
Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
Publication date: September 2022
Reasons for inclusion
Yifengmen is the north gate of Nanjing, that is, the back gate of the city. Out of the Yifeng Gate, it is the Yangtze River, officials go north, and the army goes out, they have to go through this city gate. If the battle is won, the people of the vicinity will gather here to welcome the triumphant soldiers. The novel "The Gate of Yifeng" spreads out from the Yifeng Gate as a dot, integrating the history of the eve of the Nanjing City Revolution and the modern history of Nanjing into the ups and downs of life and fate headed by Yang Kui and other male protagonists, interspersed with the subtle urban context of Nanjing City, especially the geography, humanities, and social development of Xiaguan area, which is a spiritual history of the growth and struggle of reckless heroes and a microcosm of the modern and modern history of Nanjing City. The small Yifeng Gate witnesses the strength and frost of a nation in the historical giant river, and witnesses the trauma and tenacity of a city and its people.
"Soul Gun"
Author: Shi Yifeng
Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
Publication date: October 2022
Reasons for inclusion
Lu Prize writer Shi Yifeng's new full-length masterpiece tells a legendary story about video game competition. Vasily, the name of a sharpshooter and the game ID of a friend of "my" many years ago. "Vasily", who was bullied and troubled by autism in reality, was able to "shoot into the soul" and become a super player who swept his opponent as soon as he entered the game. At that time, e-sports was just emerging, and "I" and my classmates Fish Brother and Little Bear devoted themselves to it, pulling the porter "Vasily" to fight around, full of pride and wanting to show their strength, but had to swing between the two worlds of reality and games. In the end, after a final and an accident, scattered and fell fiercely into life... The universe is ethereal and life is wonderful. Going around in circles, when the name appears again, can we still retrieve "Vasily" and his "soul gun"?
"Destiny"
Author: Cai Chongda
Publisher: Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House
Publication time: September 2022
Reasons for inclusion
How can a woman who wants to rewrite her destiny redefine her destiny without being overcome?
How can a family divorced from traditional destiny rediscover the meaning of life and protect inner peace?
"Destiny" is a novel created by Cai Chongda after "Skin" after eight years.
The phrase in "The Skin" is "The skin is for use, not for serving." "It is from the protagonist of "Destiny", the mouth of Ah Tai. "Destiny" takes the story of her life at the age of 99 as the main line, connecting the life and death, happiness and ups and downs of a family in a fishing town in southern Fujian.
"The People of the Deer"
Author: [plus] Farley Moirt
Translator: Shu Lan, Luo Haihui
Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
This book fully chronicles the demise of an ancient ethnic group, the Imamites. The Imamites, an Inuit who have lived in the freezing cold of Canada's Arctic for generations, have twice visited them in the polar wilderness to learn about these "deer people" who lived on reindeer and once thrived. Combined with field research and oral accounts of the tribesmen, the author truly restores the beautiful life picture of the coexistence of the aborigines and deer, shows their wisdom in getting along with nature, and profoundly reveals how this wasteland has changed its ecology due to the invasion of colonial trade, and then caused this group to lose the support and balance of survival, and eventually went extinct.
"Home in the Ancient City"
Author: Fan Xiaoqing
Publisher: Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House
As a recognized master of Supai novels, Fan Xiaoqing peeled away the cocoons of Suzhou's personalized city in a non-fictional form, full of warmth and tolerance and friendly attitude, recorded the old streets and alleys and the group of people living in them, and told about their growth and transformation and their intergenerational reconciliation with the times.
From Wuxi Road to Lindun Road, from the North Temple Pagoda to the Champion Museum. The author does not hesitate to count the records one by one, making this work quite colorful as a "biography" of the ancient city, allowing readers to understand the past and present life of the ancient city of Suzhou, showing the power of non-fiction literature. In one text after another, Fan Xiaoqing explores how Suzhou has extended traditional Chinese oriental aesthetics in contemporary society since the reform and opening up, so that "Home in the Ancient City" is not only a book that records the transformation and changes of the ancient city, but also a collective memory of the period of social transformation, showing the history of the changes in the old streets and alleys of modern Chinese cities, this book is about history, architecture, soul, and also connects the deep space of oriental aesthetics.
"Carrot Whiskers"
Author: Jules Lenard
Translator: Jiang Shimeng
Publisher: Wanjuan Publishing Co., Ltd
Publication time: 2022-08
Reasons for inclusion
"Carrot Beard" is a very healing novel by French writer Jules Lenard, "Carrot Beard" is full of red hair and freckles; The house is full of mother's teasing, father's indifference, brother's bullying, and sister's teasing. Carrot whiskers seem to have a home, but they seem to have no home, and the despair of no one to love makes carrots desperately eager to be loved and paid attention to when they grow up. For this reason, Carrot Beard does a lot of stupid things that make people laugh and cry. "Carrot Beard" is a gift from Lenard to the child's growth, and he tells his childhood story with condensed brushstrokes from the perspective of an adult. Who is not a carrot whiskers?
"Uncle Li's Simultaneous Biography: From Fenghua Talent to Yunshui Monk"
Author: Wang Zhaoqian
Publisher: Modern Press
Li Shutong was a pioneer of the New Culture Movement and a pioneer in modern art enlightenment education. He was highly accomplished in Chinese studies, poetry, music, art, drama, calligraphy, seal carving, etc., and was a brilliant Chinese artist and brilliant talent in the first half of the 20th century. He cut off the dust edge in middle age and became an outstanding representative of Buddhism and a prestigious Yunshui monk.
It can be said that whether he entered the world or was born, he presented to the world his serious, courageous and progressive attitude in life.
The author, Mr. Wang Zhaoqian, from the memories of exchanges with Uncle Li's relatives, friends and students, and from the examination and falsification of many complicated historical materials, searched for Li Shutong's little-known life traces and secret and tortuous mental journey, trying to restore a real, warm, de-deified Hongyi master, presenting his human characteristics of rich, complex and harmonious integration, and drawing a vivid silhouette of China's transformation from tradition to modernity in the past century.
"Mockery Cools in Silence: Interviews and Research Continuation of European Film Masters"
Author: Xiao Xi
Publisher: Times Literature and Art Publishing House
Film studies, part of the "New Fan Series" series.
This book brings together interviews, research papers, and biographical chronology of seven European film masters—Swedish director Roy Anderson, Spanish director Carlos Sola, Portuguese director Pedro Costa, French director Jean-Danielle Poulay, Soviet director Sergei Parajanov, Czech director Jan Schumeimeyer, British director Peter Greenaway, and Russian director Alexander Sokolov.
This book shows how these film masters embarked on the road of film and the process of film creation, as well as the creative concepts they adhered to, and strives to sink the ideological resources from philosophy, history, sociology, art history, anthropology and other humanities that have been neglected by film studies, and excavate new marginal documents in the depths of film history, which has academic research value.
"The Train is Fast"
Author: Li Juan
Publisher: Huacheng Press
A collection of poems by the famous essayist Li Juan. This is Li Juan's purest and most private text, hiding a lot of metaphors and passwords. Gorgeous, light, poetic, imaginative soaring. Presents the poet Li Juan who is different from the essayist Li Juan.
The train that will leave the meeting, the marmot in the cave of the forest, the apple before gravity is discovered, the "me" that stretches on the earth at the speed of plant growth... The imagery creates a magnificent world, like the world where the "Little Prince" and the "Rose" planets are located.
"Wearing Flowers"
Author: Water Transport Constitution
Publisher: Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House
The novel "Dai Hua " is the first batch of "New Era Literary Climbing Program" support projects of the Chinese Writers Association. tells the story of a group of college students represented by the protagonist "me" at the end of the 60s of the 20th century who came to the Dehua Electric Manufacturing Factory and entered the production line to learn and practice, grow and transform. "I" and master Mo Huzi are masters and apprentices, but also opponents, the contradictions and conflicts between the two generations are everywhere, but what is shown under the contradictions is the duo's awe of ordinary professions, the pursuit of the ultimate, the persistence of dreams, and the perfect interpretation of the spirit of craftsmanship, which is a breakthrough work of contemporary industrial novels.
Beijing in Essays
Author: Zhang Li
Publisher: Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House
"Beijing in Prose" is an essay written by famous critic and scholar Zhang Li by modern and contemporary masters about Beijing's scenery, climate, customs, culture, and people's feelings. Xu Dishan, Yu Dafu, Zhang Hingshui, Lao She, Wu Ming, Shen Congwen, Wang Zengqi, Xiao Fuxing, Ye Guangqian, Shi Tiesheng, Zhou Xiaofeng, Xu Zechen, Shi Yifeng... Written by generations of literati, Beijing's rich cultural charm flows in grand palaces, vast gardens, winding hutongs, and clear skies. The night talk in the hutong, the hot pot noodles in the snow, the autumn leaves of the fragrant mountain, the historical change of Lugou Bridge, the comfort in the silence of the temple of earth... Beijing is like an ancient and long river of time, and we can follow the author's words to its subtle depths and appreciate the richness and magnificence of the thousand-year-old capital.
"Flaws in the Mirror"
By Patrick White
Translator: Li Yao
"Flaws in the Mirror" is a lengthy literary autobiography of Patrick White, Australia's first Nobel Prize winner in literature. In the book, White recalls his teenage years from birth to wandering and seeking identity, recording his continuous thinking and exploration of writing and art; After the war, he and his partner returned to Greece to try to find a spiritual home in history.
In this autobiography, White unreservedly dissects himself, sometimes poetically lyrical, sometimes introspective, sometimes witty and caustic. In his own way, he depicts and dismantles Australia and the world, and re-embeds them in the map of his own mind.
Time Machine
By Herbert George Wells
Translator: Hu Xiaoshi
The Time Machine is the first science fiction work by the British novelist Herbert George Wells, the "father of science fiction". The novel describes a scientist who travels through a time travel machine to 802701 AD, when humans have gradually declined and evolved into two categories: the Eloites and the Morlocks. The author depicts the graceful and delicate Eloites living on the ground as animals raised by rude Morlocks who live underground all year round, revealing the horrific scene caused by the great difference in social division and distribution caused by the modern principle of competition in human society, in addition to the great freedom that human beings gained after the conquest of time.
"The Personal History of Literature: Lu Xun's Biography<朝花夕拾>"
Author: Wu Jun
Publisher: East China Normal University Press
To read Lu Xun, you must read "Morning Flowers and Sunset Pickup".
The main body of the book is divided into two parts, one is a brief score and a biography, and Lu Xun's life has an objective brief description and literary description, highlighting the key points and main points of personal history; The second is to read the whole book, interpret "Morning Flowers and Sunset" in parts, and pay attention to reading, analysis, rhetorical art, and ideological significance that take into account both language and literature. Thus, the two parts are combined into Lu Xun's literary personal history. Finally, the text also briefly mentions the phenomenon of "missing persons" in Lu Xun's literary personal history.
Oh Kids – A Family History of Millennials
Author: Wang Hongzhe Editor-in-Chief
Publisher: Lijiang Publishing House Co., Ltd
"Oh, Children: Family History of the Millennial Generation" selects the family history works of more than 20 Peking University undergraduates, who came from the north and south of the world, and their ancestors and parents went to Nanyang, or broke into the eastern part of the country, or took root in forest farms in the northeast, or traveled all over the country. From different texts, we can glimpse the fate of individuals and families under the torrent of the times. Migration, growth, work... Established-established histories are recorded, retraced, and salvaged, and millennials portray the 20th century, where the life course of the ordinary working class and the changes in Chinese society are intertwined, outlining a "private history." The stories that can be told and the unspeakable converge into the real weight behind the linear time of the rise of nations.
Family history differs from traditional journalistic writing in that it is an interdisciplinary work that integrates multiple theories and methods such as oral history interviews, autoethnography, archival research, material materials, and media history research. Through the study of communication theory through family history, children not only achieve the study of "action" and "ritual" from the perspective of social science, but also once again question the essence of the university spirit.
This issue of the book list is jointly published by the following 6 media outlets:
China Publishing Media Business Daily, The Paper News "Cultural Lesson" column, Today's Toutiao Cultural Channel, Dangdang Reading Club, Yiming Reading Club, and Good Book Detective (in no particular order).