These are shiningly sinister stories that grab you by the vulnerable back of the neck and don't let go." - Elle "Yoko Ogawa is an absolute master of the Gothic at its most beautiful and dangerous, and Revenge is a collection that deepens and darkens with every story you read." -Peter Straub "A secret garden of dark, glorious flowers: silky, heartbreakingly beautiful.and poison to their roots." -Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns
Yoko Ogawa's Revenge is a master class in the macabre that will haunt you to the last page. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders-their fates converge in an ominous and darkly beautiful web. 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. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. 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.Īn aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. But this collection may linger in your mind - it does in mine - as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience." -Alan Cheuse, NPR Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes.
one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. "It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book.
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