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Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
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ISBN10: 0312674465
ISBN13: 9780312674465
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jan 29 2013
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.78 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780312674465
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Jan 29 2013
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.51 Width: 5.78 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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
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