Erupts into the ordinary world as if from the unconscious or the grave. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance. Ogawa is original, elegant, very disturbing - Hilary MantelĪ conspicuously gifted writer.To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. Publisher: Vintage Publishing ISBN: 9781784876371 Number of pages: 176 Weight: 120 g Dimensions: 178 x 110 x 13 mm MEDIA REVIEWS 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.Įlegant, 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. 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. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' Guardian 'A conspicuously gifted writer.To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt.
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