Revenge
By Yoko Ogawa
Translated by Stephen Snyder
Harry Hartog's review
My lordy this is gold. I generally avoid short stories because I tend to struggle ‘shutting off’ between stories. Often the constant reintroduction of new characters and places every few pages confuses me... But here, here Ogawa has done what I've yearned for in short stories, she’s balanced the sonder of life’s minute details and coincidences. you’re allowed to appreciate the motifs and characters because they won’t be forgotten within the next few pages. - Ben, Marketing
Description
Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE
'A conspicuously gifted writer...To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' Guardian
Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders - locked in the embrace of an ominous and darkly beautiful web, their fates all converge through the eleven stories here in Yoko Ogawa's Revenge. As tales of the macabre pass from character to character - an aspiring writer, a successful surgeon, a cabaret singer, a lonely craftsman - Ogawa provides us with a slice of life that is resplendent in its chaos, enthralling in its passion and chilling in its cruelty.
Translated by Stephen Snyder
Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.
- ISBN:
- 9781784876371
- Format:
- Paperback / softback
- Pages:
- 176
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- Imprint:
- Vintage Classics
- Weight:
- 120 g