Last cursed family

Author: Wen Qin Ke Ren
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Describes the emotional entanglement of twin sisters, recreating a century of turmoil in Northeast China. The mysterious stone house, the folk society of Northeast China that worships gods and practices witchcraft, the deformed child, the friend who commits suicide, the telepathy between the sisters, and the interweaving of reality and fantasy make this a rare novel in recent years that combines exploration with readability. A hundred years ago, under imperial pressure, the head of the Hua family killed the daughter and son-in-law of an anti-Russian guerrilla leader. Before her death, the stunningly beautiful leader swore a curse to curse the family, and thus, the curse symbolizing suffering and despair, along with the ghost of a woman, followed the family for a full century. For a hundred years, the members of the family struggled between tragic love and bitter hatred, either resisting or compromising in the midst of hardship. Does the curse truly exist? What is the truth behind the decline of the Hua family? A hundred years later, the last two women of the Hua family, with doubts and struggles about survival, began their pursuit of this century-old mystery. The curse that fell upon a family, the mysterious stone house, the telepathy between twin sisters, the folk society of Northeast China that worships gods and practices witchcraft, the deformed child, the friend who commits suicide—all of these contribute to the somber atmosphere of the novel. The characters in the work are either dead or injured, some addicted to drugs or disabled, and the narrative threads often shift arbitrarily between reality and fantasy, the past and the present, giving the work strong metaphorical depth.