本书荟萃了作者自20世纪80年代以来撰写的随笔杂文70余篇，分为三辑。这些散文题材广泛，内容丰富，有对个人难忘的经历、历史往事和生活的追忆与思考，也有对国事民情的观察和剖析，还有对异域风光的描绘，以及对文友故旧的怀念，文笔简练，语言犀利，见解深刻。本书由人民文学出版社2009年新编。（This book assembles the writers' over 70 essays composed since 1980s, and is divided into 3 volumes. These proses have a wide range of subjects, and are rich in content, involving recalling and thinking of personal memorable experience, past events and life, observation and analysis of national affairs and conditions of the people, depiction of exotic landscape, and also the memory of literary friends and old acquaintances. The writing is concise and sharp, with profound opinion. This book was newly edited by People's Literature Publishing House in 2009. ）