Name: Revenge
SKU: 64604816
Price: 18.88 EUR
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Author: Yoko Ogawa
ISBN: 9781250375988

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yoko Ogawa

Publisher

Picador

Language

English

Pages

192

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781250375988

Revenge

Yoko Ogawa (Author) · Picador · Paperback

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Synopsis "Revenge"

"Each tale here seems to be its own torture chamber--dark and meticulous . . . More disturbing than the bloody imagery is the eerie calm with which each plot unfolds, as if one act of violence must necessarily transform into the portal for another." --The New Yorker A collection of eleven eerie and harrowing interwoven tales from the award-winning author of Mina's Matchbox and The Memory Police--now with a new introduction by Carmen Maria Machado. An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. A bereft and grieving mother attempts to connect with her dead son. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him. 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 only to instruments of human torture. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and enemies--their fates converge in an ominous and darkly beautiful web. Sinister forces collide with a host of desperate characters in this deeply harrowing collection of interwoven tales from Yoko Ogawa, a master of the macabre. Eerie, suspenseful, and wonderfully unsettling, Revenge will haunt you until the very last page.

Yoko Ogawa

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Yōko Ogawa was born in Okayama, Japan, in 1962. She is a Japanese writer known for her delicate and disturbing style, which explores memory, loss, and the deepest human emotions. She studied Literature at Waseda University and since 1988 has published more than fifty works of fiction and non-fiction.
Her literary career began with "Disintegration of the Butterfly" (1988), and she gained international recognition with novels such as "The Housekeeper and the Professor", "The Memory Police", "Revenge", "The Diving Pool", "Hotel Iris", and "The Girl Who Went to School on a Hippopotamus". Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has been adapted for film and theater.
Throughout her career, she has received numerous awards, including the Akutagawa Prize, the Yomiuri Prize, the Tanizaki Prize, and the Shirley Jackson Award. In 2020, "The Memory Police" was a finalist for the International Booker Prize.

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