Yoko Ogawa's 'The Housekeeper and the Professor' () is a short novel that combines broad themes of reason and poetry with an exploration of the intimacy of family. Set in contemporary Japan, the book features three nameless characters and their relationships. Macabre, fiendishly clever, and with a touch of the supernatural, Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge creates a haunting tapestry of death — and the Nationality: Japanese. Macabre, fiendishly clever, and with a touch of the supernatural, Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge creates a haunting tapestry of death — and the afterlife of the living. Book Genres: Short Stories, Fiction, Horror, Cultural, Japan, Asian Literature, Japanese Literature, Literary Fiction, Asia, Book Edition: Picador. · Title: Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales Japanese Title: 寡黙な死骸 みだらな弔い (Kamoku na shigai, midara no tomurai) Author: Ogawa Yōko (小川 洋子) Translator: Stephen Snyder Publication Year: (America); (Japan) Publisher: Picador Pages: Ogawa Yōko is a writer of the fantastic who spins softly glittering tales of quiet www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins.
From this beginning Yoko Ogawa weaves a dark and beautiful narrative that pulls together a seemingly disconnected cast of characters. 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. Yōko Ogawa (小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in www.doorway.ru , she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novel The Professor and his Beloved Equation has been made into a movie. In she co-authored „An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics" with Masahiko Fujiwara, a. Revenge by Yoko Ogawa is the darkest, strangest book I've read in a very long time.. I found it in the library when I was scouting around for Japanese authors I could read for Japanese Literature Challenge #I'd read one book by Yoko Ogawa previously (The Housekeeper and the Professor) and thoroughly enjoyed it so this seemed a good www.doorway.ru I didn't realise that Revenge isn't a novel.
“Yoko Ogawa is an absolute master of the Gothic at its most beautiful and dangerous, and Revenge is a collection that deepens and darkens with every story you read.” ―Peter Straub “It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book. ― Yōko Ogawa, quote from Revenge “It shocked me to realize that he suddenly seemed old -- so frail that the slightest push would have sent him tumbling. The body I had felt when I'd gone searching for my hidden presents had been sturdier; and though I had always thought of him as tall, e was now much shorter than me. Title: Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales Japanese Title: 寡黙な死骸 みだらな弔い (Kamoku na shigai, midara no tomurai) Author: Ogawa Yōko (小川 洋子) Translator: Stephen Snyder Publication Year: (America); (Japan) Publisher: Picador Pages: Ogawa Yōko is a writer of the fantastic who spins softly glittering tales of quiet desperation.
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