生我养我的无梁村，有着吴志鹏极力摆脱却终挥之不去的记忆。哺育我十多年的老姑父为了爱情放弃了军人的身份，却在之后的几十年生活中深陷家庭矛盾无法自拔；为了拉扯大三个孩子，如草芥般的虫嫂沦为小偷，陷入人人可唾的悲剧命运；村里的能手春才，在青春期性的诱惑和村人的闲言碎语中自宫……在时代与土地的变迁中，人物的精神产生裂变，都走向了自己的反面。在这些无奈和悲凉中，在各种异化的人生轨迹中，又蕴藏着一个个生命的真谛。
　　《生命册》的主题是时代与人，在从传统乡土到现代都市的巨大的跨越中，李佩甫深切地关注着那些背负土地行走的人们。他怀着经典现实主义的雄心和志向，确信从人的性格和命运中可以洞见社会意识的深层结构。
　　《生命册》以沉雄老道的笔力塑造着一系列鲜明的人物形象，快与慢、得与失、故土与他乡、物质与精神、灵魂的质地在剧烈的颠簸中接受缜密的测试和考验，他们身上的尖锐矛盾所具有的过渡性的特征，与社会生活的转型形成了具体而迫切的呼应。
　　The Book of Life portrays China's half-century transformation through orphan Wu Zhipeng's escape from the poverty of his native village in Henan province. It creates a series of distinctive persons with a bold yet profound voice. Li Peifu focuses on those who carry their rural backgrounds with them wherever they go. They are tested by intense contrasts of gain and loss, fast and slow, matter and spirit, homeland and foreign land. Their fate offers us insight into the deep structures of social consciousness. These transitional struggles are a clear and urgent echo of the transformations of contemporary society.

　　李佩甫，1953年出生，河南人，中国当代知名作家，河南省作协主席。著有长篇小说《羊的门》《城的灯》《等等灵魂》等，中篇小说《黑蜻蜓》《村魂》《田园》等。
　　Li Peifu was born into a worker’s family, in Xuchang, Henan, in October 1953, is one of the most well-known authors in China today. He started to publish works in 1978. He graduated from Henan Radio and Television University in 1984, where he majored in Chinese language and literature. After graduation, he worked at Xuchang Municipal Bureau of Culture and later became president of the Henan Writers Association and Henan Literature and Art Association. On August 16, 2015, he was awarded the Mao Dun Literature Prize for his novel The Book of Life. His most influential work is The Book of Life, which he finished in 2011, and which won him the prestigious Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2015. The Book of Life is also the finale of his Plains Trilogy, after the 1999 Door of the Sheepfold and the 2003 The Light of the Cities.