Tear mole

Author: Li Xiwen
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: In Tears in the Beauty Mark, there is both a profound love and an incurable love; it can be called the pinnacle of love, yet it is also a distortion of love. No matter how you look at it, such extremity is rarely found in Chinese fiction. The very rarity of it makes it all the more worth reading. — Lin Shaohua (renowned translator, translator of Norwegian Wood)
In the process of searching, unbearable memories slowly emerge from the fog of Tokyo: the monster-like Tokyo, the stunning lavender farm in Hokkaido, and the girl named "Blue Button." Her temper, her sensitivity, her constant urge to "ruin herself," her playfulness and fearlessness, her extreme behavior born from love-induced inferiority—the sum of her life and death leaves one deeply moved.
Finally, at the end of the novel, the young man finds the place where the girl is buried—after excavating the grave of a Showa-era Korean courtesan who had also been exiled to Japan, he not only provides a resting place for the girl but also finds a companion for her in that cold and desolate world.
This is a work filled with emotion. The author intends to convey a certain idea: because of our own flaws, we need love. With love, we may become more flawed because of it, but we still need it. There is a movie in Europe titled Love Kills, but as long as there is love, the complexities from birth to death can be explained by another film's title: Next Stop, Heaven.