《天堂十记》是围绕着天堂村的新农村现实所写的十个故事。作者着重写农村传统风土人情的瓦解，写农民新的生存困境，写农村民主出现的畸形怪诞，写农村的官僚主义等等。作者用批判的眼光，用现实主义的情怀，用沉重又不乏幽默的笔调描写了一个个具有典型意义的个案，让人体会工业文明的发展对农业文明的冲击和毁灭...... (Ten Stories about Paradise Village provides ten stories about the new village reality of Paradise Village. The author focuses on the collapse of traditional village customs, the survival dilemma facing villagers, the deformity and absurdness of villagers democracy, the bureaucracy in rural areas and so on. Through critical perspective, realistic feelings, heavy yet humorous expressions, the author describes a series of cases of typical meanings making readers realize the industrial culture's impact on and ruin of rural civilization.)