Name: Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales (in English)
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Author: Yoko Ogawa
ISBN: 9780312674465

portada Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yoko Ogawa

Translated by

Stephen Snyder

Publisher

Picador

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

176

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 14.7 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN

0312674465

ISBN13

9780312674465

Edition No.

Synopsis "Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales (in English)"

"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

Yoko Ogawa

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(Okayama, 1962) Escritora japonesa que ha ganado los más importantes premios literarios japoneses, incluidos el Akutagawa y el Tanizaki. Es autora de reconocidas novelas, como el célebre best seller La fórmula preferida del profesor. La magistral novela La Policía de la Memoria quedó finalista del National Book Award 2019 y del International Booker Prize 2020, y fue considerada una de las mejores obras del año 2020 por The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Time, Financial Times, Esquire, Library Journal, Kirkus Review y LitHub. Su obra está inspirada por el autor Kenzaburo Oe y Anna Frank.

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