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- A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is one serving so she waits. Ather customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in an accident when he was six years old. From this beginning Yoko Ogawa weaves a dark and beautiful narrative that pulls together a seemingly disconnected cast of characters. In the tradition of classical Japanese poetic collections, the stories in Revenge are linked through recurring images and motifs, as each story follows on from the one before while simultaneously introducing new characters and themes. Filled with breathtaking images, Ogawa provides us with a slice of life that is resplendent in its chaos, enthralling in its passion and chilling in its cruelty.
Product Identifiers
- PublisherVintage Publishing
- ISBN-100099553937
- ISBN-139780099553939
- eBay Product ID (ePID)208783655
Dimensions
- Weight128g
- Height198mm
- Width129mm
Additional Product Features
- Place of PublicationLondon
- Spine12mm
- Translated byStephen Snyder
- PrizesShortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Award 2014.
- Author BiographyYoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award including the Akutagawa and the Tanizaki Prizes. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, a collection of three novellas, The Housekeeper and the Professor and Hotel Iris.
- FormatPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Author(s)Yoko Ogawa
- Date of Publication03/07/2014
- Format DetailsB-Format Paperback
- SubjectGeneral & Literary Fiction
- ImprintVintage
- Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
- GenreGeneral & Literary Fiction