The Golden Centipede

This is a fantasy tale set between the late 1940s and early 1980s. When Hongdou, the beauty of Jinxing Village, was married off, her father, the impoverished landlord Tang Chunshui, secretly slipped her an antique. A golden centipede seemed to grow wings and follow it. From then on, disaster followed her like a shadow, as decades of love and hatred became entwined... The book offers a penetrating look into human nature and a helpless account of an absurd era.

The author, a renowned writer of nostalgic prose, spent fourteen years pouring their heart into the work, carefully choosing each word and polishing every line. In prose as beautiful as poetry, they tell us a heartrending, fantastical tale of terror, while also painting a rich and fragrant portrait of rural life.