Revenge Av Yoko Ogawa

<p><b>FROM THE AUTHOR OF <i>THE MEMORY POLICE</i></b><br><br><b>''A conspicuously gifted writer¿To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance'' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders ¿ locked in the embrace of an ominous and darkly beautiful web, their fates all converge through the eleven stories here in Yoko Ogawa¿s <i>Revenge.</i> As tales of the macabre pass from character to character ¿ an aspiring writer, a successful surgeon, a cabaret singer, a lonely craftsman ¿ Ogawa provides us with a slice of life that is resplendent in its chaos, enthralling in its passion and chilling in its cruelty. <br><br>Translated by Stephen Snyder<br><br><b>Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovati