《石瀑布》（人民文学出版社９９年出版）是一部尚未引起注意的长篇小说，这自然有它自身的原因，比如写法上的传统和拙实，人物题旨的似曾见过之类。可是，这部书一旦读进去了，又会觉得它是那种平实外表下藏着某种深刻难言意味的作品。这绝非我的夸张。此书作者郑彦英三年前 Stone Falls (People’s Literature Publishing House, 1999) is a no-nonsense novel that naturally has its own reasons, such as the tradition and clumsiness in wording, the kind of characterization that people have seen before. However, once the book is read in, it will feel that it is hidden under the plain appearance of some profound unspeakable works. This is by no means my exaggeration. The book author Zheng Yan Ying three years ago