human skin embroidery

Can we get in touch with our true selves? Everyday lies accumulate in the body, transforming it into another language with which to build relationships. When lies collapse and language disappears, no one can turn back. Hong Kong writer Han Lizhu uses four beautiful stories to depict a life wrapped in lies. Under the embroidery of human skin, there are invisible wounds all over the body.

"He would always open his eyes in time from his sleep and answer my questions. He said that he often felt that something was left in the store. "But I don't know what it is." He said in a dry voice He said, "Perhaps, I will find it in the store, one day." In that rickety carriage, he said that in the past many years, he could not always feel the loss accurately. Whether it was when the old dog that had been kept at home for many years died, when his father suddenly found out that he had terminal cancer and was sent to the hospital and never came back, or when his lover who had been with him for many years broke up without warning, his heart was empty and there was nothing. . "It's like standing in front of a wall. There is no door to open or lead to another place." When he said this, there was an inexplicable loss on his face. But why should we be lost? I thought, why would he think that there must be a door that leads to another place? ──〈Human skin embroidery〉