Revenge

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 ¨C 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 ¨C an aspiring writer, a successful surgeon, a cabaret singer, a lonely craftsman ¨C Ogawa provides us with a slice of life that is resplendent in its chaos, enthralling in its passion and chilling in its cruelty.