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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. Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE'A conspicuously gifted writer. Excellent condition Yoko Ogawas Revenge is a master class in the macabre that will haunt you to the last page. Second-Hand Lot 13 & 14, Level 2, Nu Sentral Mall Jalan Tun Sambanthan, Kuala Lumpur Sentral, Brickfields, MPH NU Sentral, 50470 Kuala Lumpur Sentral, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Store HoursEveryday : 10 a. Poe.
- Dimensions 110 x 178 x 110mm | 120g
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Mayavie
When the writer is Yoko Ogawa, everyday produce such as strawberries, kiwis, carrots and tomatoes can be sprinkled with the fairy dust of quiet terror. And this particular work of hers, translated from the Japanese by the ever reliable Stephen Snyder, makes for a perfect case study to demonstrate the superiority of terror over horror. Another, a crop of human hand-shaped carrots. How does an author paint a picture of the macabre, without shedding a drop of blood?
There are eleven such weirdly fantastic individual short stories interconnected like a rat king, persons or events of one story making a guest appearance in the next till we come full circle. One story features a dizzying scene of a make-shift warehouse filled with enormous heaps of kiwis.
Ogawa is one of my favourite authors, Japanese or otherwise. There’s one about a caretaker of a strange museum of torture. Yet another features a woman born with her heart growing outside her chest.
In the best possible way. The garden-variety strawberry, of the colour of blood and shaped like a heart, is ruined for me forever.
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