{"title":"Horror in Translation","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome of the most unsettling horror on our shelves was first written in Spanish, Japanese and German. From an Argentine occult epic to a Tokyo house with a floor plan that hides something, these four books show how differently fear travels, and how well.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"revenge-eleven-dark-tales-paperback","title":"Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYoko Ogawa\u003c\/b\u003e. Translated by \u003cb\u003eStephen Snyder\u003c\/b\u003e. Introduction by \u003cb\u003eCarmen Maria Machado\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Each tale here seems to be its own torture chamber - dark and meticulous . . . More disturbing than the bloody imagery is the eerie calm with which each plot unfolds, as if one act of violence must necessarily transform into the portal for another.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of eleven eerie and harrowing interwoven tales from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eMina's Matchbox\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Police\u003c\/i\u003e - now with a new introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. A bereft and grieving mother attempts to connect with her dead son. Elsewhere, an accomplished surgeon's jealous lover vows to kill him. 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 only to instruments of human torture. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and enemies - their fates converge in an ominous and darkly beautiful web.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSinister forces collide with a host of desperate characters in this deeply harrowing collection of interwoven tales from Yoko Ogawa, a master of the macabre. Eerie, suspenseful, and wonderfully unsettling, \u003ci\u003eRevenge \u003c\/i\u003ewill haunt you until the very last page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYoko Ogawa\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eMina's Matchbox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Memory Police\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHotel Iris\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Diving Pool\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Housekeeper and the Professor\u003c\/i\u003e. Her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e A Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eZoetrope\u003c\/i\u003e. Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Housekeeper and the Professor\u003c\/i\u003e was adapted into the 2006 film \u003ci\u003eThe Professor's Beloved Equation\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Ashiya, Japan, with her husband and son.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Snyder\u003c\/b\u003e teaches Japanese literature at Middlebury College. 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