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Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales - Paperback
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Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
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Is this book for you?
- Feels
- Eerie, Melancholy, Atmospheric
- Kind of story
- Short stories, Literary horror
- About
- Revenge, Grief, Obsession
- Pace
- Steady
- How dark
- 3 of 5. Dark, with real menace
- Romance
- None to speak of
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by Yoko Ogawa. Translated by Stephen Snyder. Introduction by Carmen Maria Machado
"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." - The New Yorker
A collection of eleven eerie and harrowing interwoven tales from the award-winning author of Mina's Matchbox and The Memory Police - now with a new introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.
An 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.
Sinister 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, Revenge will haunt you until the very last page.
Author Biography
Yoko Ogawa is the author of Mina's Matchbox, The Memory Police, Hotel Iris, The Diving Pool, and The Housekeeper and the Professor. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her novel The Housekeeper and the Professor was adapted into the 2006 film The Professor's Beloved Equation. She lives in Ashiya, Japan, with her husband and son.
Stephen Snyder teaches Japanese literature at Middlebury College. His translations include works by Kenzaburō Ōe, Ryu Murakami, Natsuo Kirino, and Miri Yu.
Details
- Author: Yoko Ogawa
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 192
- Published: September 16, 2025
- Size: 5.3 x 8.1 x 0.6 in
- ISBN: 9781250375988
Praise
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A secret garden of dark, glorious flowers: silky, heartbreakingly beautiful... and poison to their roots.
Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns
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Yoko Ogawa is an absolute master of the Gothic at its most beautiful and dangerous, and Revenge is a collection that deepens and darkens with every story you read.
Peter Straub
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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.
Alan Cheuse, NPR
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Spine-tingling... These are shiningly sinister stories that grab you by the vulnerable back of the neck and don't let go.
Elle
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