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Revenge eleven dark tales

Offers eleven interwoven macabre short stories that take an ominous look at grotesque characters, violent emotions, and murder.

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  • "Kamokuna Shigai Midarana Tomurai"@it

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  • "A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in an accident when he was six years old. 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 characters and themes. Filled with breathtaking images, Ogawa provides us with a slice of life that is resplendent in its chaos, enthralling in its passion and chilling in its cruelty."
  • "Recueil de onze nouvelles contenant chacune des détails qui évoquent la précédente ou annoncent la suivante, créant des effets d'écho, d'enchâssement et de mise en abyme."
  • "Offers eleven interwoven macabre short stories that take an ominous look at grotesque characters, violent emotions, and murder."@en
  • "Offers eleven interwoven macabre short stories that take an ominous look at grotesque characters, violent emotions, and murder."
  • ""It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book' [and] one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. Poe. Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. But this collection may linger in your mind ' it does in mine ' as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience." '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. An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon is approached by a cabaret singer, whose beautiful appearance belies the grotesque condition of her heart. And while the surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him, a violent envy also stirs in the soul of a lonely craftsman. 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. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders--their fates converge in an ominous and darkly beautiful web. Yoko Ogawa's Revenge is a master class in the macabre that will haunt you to the last page. An NPR Best Book of 2013."@en
  • "A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits, Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in an accident when he was six years old. 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 poetry collections, the stories in Revenge are linked through recurring images and motifs, as each story follows on from the one before while simultaneously introducting new characters and themes. Filled with breathtaking images, Ogawa provides us with a slice of life that is resplendent in its chaos, enthralling in its passion and chilling in its cruelty."@en

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  • "Short stories"
  • "Translations"@en
  • "Translations"
  • "Horror fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en

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  • "Revenge eleven dark tales"@en
  • "Das Ende des Bengalischen Tigers : ein Roman in elf Geschichten"
  • "Revenge : eleven dark tales"
  • "Revenge : eleven dark tales"@en
  • "Tristes revanches : nouvelles"
  • "Das Ende des Bengalischen Tigers Ein Roman in elf Geschichten"
  • "寡黙な死骸みだらな弔い"
  • "Kamoku na shigai midara na tomurai"
  • "Tristes revanches"@en
  • "Tristes revanches"
  • "Vendetta"
  • "Vendetta"@it
  • "Kamokuna shigai midarana tomurai"
  • "Kamokuna shigai midarana tomurai"@ja

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