The ten best urban novels: "Hou Canghai's Business Road Notes", "Big Real Estate Developer", "Crime Investigation Bureau", "Exchange, Luck", "Last Quarter Moon", "Comfort" "Book", "Haze is Always in Our Hearts", "Hou Weidong's Official Notes" and "Hou Haiyang's Grassroots Storm".
1. "Last Quarter Moon"
"Last Quarter Moon" is the most concentrated expression of Lu Xin's experience, and it is the most profound expression and writing of the "Cultural Revolution" so far. . "The Last Quarter Moon" itself is a huge metaphor, with more than 200,000 words describing only personnel and events in the winter of 1970, which was the midnight of the "Cultural Revolution", and the folk folk figure of the last quarter moon was the only light in the dark night.
The structure of this novel is unique. It consists of the main line of third-person narration, recalling text and the sub-line of the supply and marketing cooperative years in chapters three, six and nine. It is also composed of the waning moon. The image unites them.
2. "The Book of Comfort"
From the textual point of view, Kitamura's "The Book of Comfort" is a completely realistic crime-solving story, and even borrows the routines of genre novels, but the novel The spiritual core of the book still follows the author's pioneering ideas, which is reflected in the author's special pursuit of spirituality.
The comfort mentioned in "The Book of Comfort" is actually spiritual comfort, including crime and punishment, including human redemption, which are all placed in the constant reversal of victimization and victimization of the characters in the novel. .
3. "The Haze is Always in Our Hearts"
The avant-garde literary movement of the 1980s has become a new literary tradition, which is particularly active in urban literature. . For example, Xiaohang's "Haze is Always in Our Hearts" appears to be a very realistic novel, but in its heart it reveals the avant-garde consciousness of modernity.
The story travels between two virtual cities, not only alluding to China's current serious environmental pollution, but also tearing apart the illusion that people are in a spiritual crisis.
4. "Big Real Estate Developer"
"Big Real Estate Developer" is a popular online novel exclusively published by the famous online novel writer "Gengsu" on NetEase Cloud Reading. In the autumn of 2000, the real estate market in Central Plains Province had just unveiled its magnificent picture. The new semester has just begun. Chen Li, a junior student in the Department of Economics at Chung Yuan University, broke up with his ex-girlfriend just over a year ago, and his emotional wounds have not yet healed.
Enjoying leisurely campus time in a provincial commercial city, due to an accidental street robbery, he was involved in the ups and downs of the family, the ups and downs of the business world, and the love between men and women. By chance, He saved two companies on the verge of bankruptcy and opened the door for himself to enter the real estate industry.
5. "Criminal Investigation Bureau"
"Criminal Investigation Bureau" is a novel serialized on NetEase Cloud in July 2017, written by Xiaoqi Xiao. An urban legend centered on human flaws such as greed, rage, jealousy, gluttony, laziness, and arrogance. The core characters are a man and a woman led by a veteran reporter, who form a news investigation team and use wisdom and technology to uncover suspenseful incidents one after another.
Features of urban novels:
Urban novels are novel themes that center on the love between men and women and use the urban environment as the background to develop storylines and reflect social life. Three elements: characters - modern place - city storyline - love story.
Because most urban novels are written by male authors, and most of the readers are male, it is easy for urban novels to have the following plot, where one male protagonist has several female protagonists. This characteristic appears in many urban novels and easily satisfies male readers' YY characteristics, which arouses everyone's excitement.
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