Revenge : eleven dark tales / Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Picador, 2013.Edition: 1st U.S. edDescription: 162 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0312674465 (trade pbk.)
- 9780312674465 (trade pbk.)
- Kamoku na shigai midara na tomurai. English
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book... [and] one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. Poe. Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. But this collection may linger in your mind -- it does in mine -- as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience." --Alan Cheuse, NPR
Sinister forces collide---and unite a host of desperate characters---in this eerie cycle of interwoven tales from Yoko Ogawa, the critically acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon's neighbor---who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders---their fates converge in an ominous and darkly beautiful web.
Yoko Ogawa's Revenge is a master class in the macabre that will haunt you to the last page.
An NPR Best Book of 2013
"Originally published in Japan under the title Kamoku na shigai, Midara na tomurai by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha"--T.p. verso.
Afternoon at the bakery -- Fruit juice -- Old Mrs. J -- The little dustman -- Lab coats -- Sewing for the heart -- Welcome to the museum of torture -- The man who sold braces -- The last hour of the Bengal tiger -- Tomatoes and the full moon -- Poison plants.
Offers eleven interwoven macabre short stories that take an ominous look at grotesque characters, violent emotions, and murder.