Lin, The Maoist

By Internecio Pulicorum

In the desolate Henan Province of Maoist China, 1968, Lin Xiaohong--a fallen Shanghai heiress--faces betrayal that ignites a vengeance as ruthless as the Cultural Revolution tearing her world apart. When her husband, Jiang Tao, abandons her for the daughter of a powerful Party secretary, Lin's bourgeois past becomes a death sentence, her sons, Bao and Wei, pawns in a game of loyalty and grain quotas. Armed with arsenic and a pig farmer's grit, she plots a massacre at a wedding banquet, targeting her betrayers in a spiraling descent that echoes Euripides' Medea--culminating in a chilling act of mercy that shatters her soul. This reimagined tragedy weaves Henan's famine-scarred fields, Red Guard chaos, and Shanghai's lost jazz into a tapestry of rage and ruin. A butterfly's dream prologue frames China's past, present, and future--millions dead, tech rising--against Lin's personal reckoning, a haunting tale of a woman unjamming history's loom, one poisoned thread at a time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5NQMX2V
• ISBN13: 9798280544123
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 68 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.2" x 5.5"