这是一部以全新视角、独特的表现手法，写知识分子心路历程的力作。作家通过某省社科院院长何之光因向省委书记提意见；同时因秉公处事，抵制领导循私情而获罪、遭贬官。作家以极具思辨力的笔触，撼动了经济转轨过程中人们敏感的神经，揭示了人际复杂的关系和激烈的思想斗争，本书纵览了三千年来中国知识分子所走过的不归路。（This is a master piece to describe intellectual's mental course with new perspective and special expression technique. The director of Academy of Social Sciences of some province He Zhiguang committed a crime and was demoted because he advised to the Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, dealt with affairs justly and resisted the leader to practice favouritism. The author shakes the sensitive nerve of people during the economic transition and reveals the complicated personal relations and fierce ideological struggle with a writing style of analytical thinking. This book overviews the road of no return passed by the Chinese intellectuals for 3000 years.）