Quetzalcoatl

Author: Xu Xiaobin
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The novel begins in the late Qing Dynasty, telling the dramatic and tumultuous fate of a family's five generations of women. The women, with distinct personalities, replicate, mutate, and pursue within the vast changes of time and space, as well as through the inheritance of their bloodline. The novel employs multiple narrative techniques, with a plot that is strange and mysterious, language as poetic and picturesque as a painting, and imagination as boundless as the sky. It reveals the unique spiritual essence of women's lives from a unique perspective. The Feathered Serpent spans a magnificent century-long timeline, presenting a grand historical panorama, with the stories of the five generations of women appearing as if carved in relief. This work became a record-breaker in the 1990s women's writing movement. Without a doubt, The Feathered Serpent is the most painstaking and transformative masterpiece in Xu Xiaobin's writing, and its true significance may only become fully apparent many years later. In the late spring of the mid-20th century, the bold red and green patches of winter coats had not yet completely disappeared from the streets, and at 3:15 in the afternoon, the operating room of the city's most famous neurosurgery department slowly opened.