![]() and one may detect a slight bow to the American. ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Revenge Its not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book. Translated by Stephen Snyder Elegant, 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. ![]() 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. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' Guardian 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. Yoko Ogawa is another Japanese novelist who isn’t fooled. Murakami imagines the lives of two babies who survive that ordeal. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE 'A conspicuously gifted writer.To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. The title of his novel, Coin Locker Babies, refers to a wave of incidents in the 1980s in which babies were found abandoned inside Japanese train station lockers. ![]()
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