穆达先生是南京回族作家,他的长篇小说《白河逝水》完稿后,曾两次请我审读小说中所涉民族宗教内容,于是我有机会成了这部小说最早的读者。当我读完小说时,内心有一种隐隐的震撼。这种震撼不止于小说真实典型地再现了那段风云激荡的岁月,也不止于对散居在汉族地区的回族穆斯林生活的生动描述,还在于小说的结构形式以及这种结构 Mr. Muda, a writer of the Hui nationality in Nanjing, once asked me to review the contents of the national religion in the novel after his novel “White River Flooding” was completed. So I had the opportunity to become the earliest reader of this novel. When I read the novel, there is a faint inner shock. This kind of shock not only reproduces vividly the years when the novel is real but also vividly describes the Muslim life inhabited by the Hui people in the Han nationality as well as the structure of the novel and the structure