小说《浮香》讲述的是经济学家、国企老总、书法家乔文山，在画家妻子完颜蕙带儿女去美国继承其姑母的一笔遗产不归后，这个"裸官"与几个女人所发生的故事。
故事描写了市场经济大潮下，都市人物的众生相。在一家名为八星的国企所经历的资产重组等的社会变革中，其相关人物在人生、婚姻和家庭等诸多方面所遭遇的困惑焦虑、分崩离析及无措与无奈，他们在压抑求索中奋力挣脱，寻求心境的突破和灵肉的慰藉，在恐惧迷蒙中，重构人生的价值、追求与梦想。小说以主要人物乔文山、谢厅、白玫、王守一、蕙子、薛氏兄弟、田小天、玲玲、丁丁等的际遇为脉络，演绎了社会转型期人世间的情感及命运的嬗变。步说在北疆名城及北京、上海、沈阳与纽约、巴黎等大都市的广阔背景下展开，由公务员到私企员工，从打工者到大学生，从厅局官员到知识分子，从炒股大腕到山洪、泥石流毁家的灾民等，甚至贯穿小说始终的边缘人物、小角色钱阿姨和权阿姨，也十分可爱，不啻为精心构思，如有神来之笔。从而触及到了社会的各个层面。小说在人性本原与文化万象中寻求细节的新奇，其文笔的优美精致与隽永，故事的紧凑与曲折，其心结的缱绻难释及象征与拷问，实为当代城乡小说读者的一道多味大餐。(The novel Floating Fragrance narrated the story between the economist, the boss of the state-owned enterprise and the calligrapher, Qiao Wenshan as a "naked official" and several women after his painter wife Wanyan Hui took the daughter to go to America to inherit the heritage from her aunt but without return.
The story described the faces of the people in the city under the market economy tide. During the social change of the assets reorganization of the state-owned enterprise named Baxing, the related people came across the confusion and anxiety, disintegration, loss and helplessness in the life, marriage and family. They struggled to free themselves in the repression and the searching and sought the breakthrough of the mood and the comfort of the flesh and the spirit as well as reconstructed the value, pursuit and dream of the life in the fear and the loss. The novel took the circumstance of the main characters Qiao Wenshan, Director Xie, Bai Mei, Wang Shouyi,Huizi, Brothers Xue, Tian Xiaotian, Ling Ling and Ding Ding as the line to deduce the transformation of the emotion and the fate in the society during the period of social transition. The novel was unfolded under the broad background in the metropolitans like the famous city of Northern Xinjiang, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, New York and Paris. From the civil servant to the employee in the private enterprise, from the migrant labor to the undergraduate, from the officers in the department and the bureau to the intellectual, from the big shot in the stock market to the victims whose houses were damaged by the torrent and the mud flow, even the little characters like Aunt Qian and Aunt were very lovely. It was with the elaborate conception and the ingenious stroke. It touches all levels of the society. The novel sought the novel detail in the humanity origin and the all-inclusive culture. The style of writing was graceful, delicate and meaningful, the story was compact and complicated, and the knot in mind was tempting and difficult to release. It was indeed a multi-flavor feast for the readers of the contemporary urban and rural novel for the symbol and the interrogation.)
