J,' in which the narrator's landlady grows carrots in her garden in the shape of human hands.īut as you read along, you find Ogawa ascending into an orbit of her own - one that's at least as high as Murakami's - as in the story 'Sewing for the Heart,' which features a bag designer whose customer is a woman with her heart growing on the outside of her chest or in the flatly told but utterly bizarre trio of linked stories 'Welcome to the Museum of Torture,' 'The Man Who Sold Braces' and 'The Last Hour of the Bengal Tiger. Sewing for the Heart is from Yoko Ogawa’s new collection, Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales, and it’s as perversely tantalizing as anything she’s written. In the opening story, 'Afternoon at the Bakery,' a customer comes into a shop to buy strawberry shortcake for, as it turns out, a child who died years before. The blurb on the interior cover of Yoko Ogawas Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales appeals in sensationalist terms, highlighting jealous lovers, violent envy. 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 situations seem made for Murakami's particular blend of the real and the fantastic. You certainly get that feeling of being haunted by Murakami when you begin reading the 'Eleven Dark Tales,' as she calls them, in this story cycle by Yoko Ogawa.

I'm not making a perfect analogy when I suggest that most contemporary Japanese writers seem to be working under the shadow of Haruki Murakami, but I hope it highlights the spirit of the situation. It used to be a truism among critics of British poetry that Keats and most of his fellow Romantic poets worked in the shadow of John Milton.

Yoko Ogawas Revenge is a master class in the macabre that will haunt you to the last page. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders-their fates converge in an ominous and darkly beautiful web. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Revenge Subtitle Eleven Dark Tales Author Yoko Ogawa Revenge Eleven Dark Tales By: Yoko Ogawa Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith, Johanna Parker Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins Release date: 04-08-13 Language: English 105 ratings Regular price: 18.

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