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In a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of japan, qui. It was published in japan in 1998, and in the united states by picador in 20. I decided to pick up this book based on the fact that the author had also written the housekeeper and the professor, a novel that i really enjoyed and i am so glad that i did. The story continues to darken with the mothers memories of the day her son died and how she suffered in the aftermath. A discussion of yoko ogawas the diving pool with the books translator stephen snyder and translator and editor allison markin powell at idlewild books in. Towards the end of afternoon at the bakery, the opening story of japanese author yoko ogawas slim but mesmerizing volume, revenge, the. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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Revenge is a collection of eleven eloquent, charmingly dark short stories, all of which are intertwined in different ways. Jul 26, 2017 yoko ogawa has been gifting japan with dark, obsessive fiction for over thirty years, but only some of her work in currently available in english. Your music, tv shows, movies, podcasts, and audiobooks will transfer automatically to the apple music, apple tv, apple podcasts, and apple books apps where youll still have access to your favorite itunes features, including purchases, rentals, and imports. Readers may detect the shadows of murakami, borges.
The us edition of revenge is billed as eleven dark tales, but the eleven episodes are connected, a detail from one appearing in the next and then eventually more, as the sequence not only comes fullcircle but turns out to be selfcontained, making it ultimately more novellike than just a collection of short stories. They are so dark, in fact, that halfway through i abandoned the book. A whiteknuckle tale of transgression and transformation, revenge gloriously blurs the lines of vengeance and survival while simultaneously delivering a ferocious dissection of gender and genre. Only in the extraordinary sewing for the heart, significantly perhaps the central story in the book, is revenge the explicit theme. Yoko ogawas book, revenge, is a collection of eleven dark tales. Yoko ogawa weaves a dark and beautiful narrative that pulls together a seemingly. Npr fiction is reality and reality fiction in revenge, yoko ogawa s absorbing cycle of interlinked, eerie tales. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Since 1988, she has produced more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, which have been published in several countries.
Her fiction has appeared in the new yorker, a public space, and zoetrope. Eleven dark tales kindle edition by ogawa, yoko, snyder, stephen. Peter straub peter straub every act of malice glows creepily against the plain background. A tale of twisted love from yoko ogawaauthor of the diving pool and the housekeeper and the professor. Consume them independently at your own peril, but taken together, the eleven dark tales contained in revenge by yoko ogawa make for a single, delectable dish. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. In the tradition of classical japanese poetic collections, the stories in revenge are linked through recurring images and motifs, as each story follows on from the one before while simultaneously introducing new. Her works include the diving pool, a collection of three novellas, the housekeeper and the profess. But the story leaves something to be desired its ending was rushed, abrupt, and anticlimactic. Welcome to the museum of torture is the title of one of the stories in yoko ogawas slim new collection, revenge, but it aptly describes. Ogawa book club post pregnancy diary words without. Its not just murakami but also the shadow of borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book.
A mother walks into a bakery to buy two strawberry shortcakes for her sons birthday, a child whos been dead for 12 years. Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from yoko ogawa. A girl asks a classmate to accompany her to a meeting with her father as her mother lies in a hospital bed dying of cancer. The housekeeper is relating her story to the reader some years after the majority of the novel has occurred in 1992. Yoko ogawa has been gifting japan with dark, obsessive fiction for over thirty years, but only some of her work in currently available in english. I have to say that i have never in my entire life read anything quite like revenge, and i probably never will again. Peter straub its not just murakami but also the shadow of borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book.