يقرر شاب عيش حياة هادئة والتخلي عن ماضيه لكن حين يتم قتل أخته الوحيدة يقرر السعي للإنتقام فيعود للتمسك بماضيه الدموي… في ذلك الوقت تحل جريمة بشعة بحق فتيات .
The characters of this novel are searching for a different life. Some of them leave their work in the cotton factory and become sex workers in the hot springs resort, while one of them enters prison of his own accord in search of calm. A third goes to her hometown, discovering strange caves and tunnels, while a fourth chooses a refuge in A rural province, where Chinese herbs are used in traditional medicine.
These characters are intertwined in multiple emotional and physical relationships, while each of them seems like a mirror of the other, as the story of each of them begins where the previous one left off, in a fluid temporal structure.
In this novel, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2019, Tsun Shieh writes about the meaning of life in its relationship to love, sex, birthplace and work, and about the vanishing border between life and death, between wakefulness and sleep, in a blurry and turbulent plot full of sensual descriptions and vivid metaphors. , its aspects resonate with echoes of magical realism.
The book: The Inner Treasure: is a guide book published in English and recently translated into Arabic. It revolves around the topic of self-development through the journey of searching for happiness, discovering inner treasures, and how to unleash an individual’s potential to achieve his goals and enrich his life.
