An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband.
An NPR Best Book of 2013.
Yoko Ogawa\'s Revenge is a master class in the macabre that will haunt you to the last page.
Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders---their fates converge in an ominous and darkly beautiful web.
Desire meets with impulse and erupts, attracting the attention of the surgeon\'s neighbor---who is drawn to a decaying residence that is now home to instruments of human torture.
And while the surgeon\'s jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman.
Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart.
An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. --Alan Cheuse, NPR Sinister forces collide---and unite a host of desperate characters---in this eerie cycle of interwoven Tales from Yoko Ogawa, the critically acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor.
But this collection may linger in your mind -- it does in mine -- as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience.
Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes.
Poe. [and] one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.
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It\'s not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book...
Meanwhile, a surgeon\'s lover vows to kill him if he does not leave his wife.
Years later, the writer\'s stepson reflects upon his stepmother and the strange stories she used to tell him.
An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband
