Revenge

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Najbardziej podobało mi się pierwsze opowiadanie, ale podejrzewam że to właśnie dlatego, że jest ono pierwszym w całej książce. Before I delve into the review, allow me to give a shout out to ViratKaBichraBhai for this amazing recommendation. From this beginning Yoko Ogawa weaves a dark and beautiful narrative that pulls together a seemingly disconnected cast of characters. Completely amazing and enjoyable for such a short read and I would suggest this book to probably everyone who might like a dark read. In Revenge, Ogawa flexes her storytelling muscle by weaving together a series of tales, each one focusing on a character from the story before it and acting as a set of Russian nesting dolls in her usual world of macabre.

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Ogawa] stresses the trustworthiness of the storyteller and the essential reality of what we are seeing, even as strange situations and surreal events create a dreamlike undertow, challenging our sense of security. The collection is written in her trademark simple elegance (and translated by the marvellous Stephen Snyder).

She has won five prestigious literary awards in Japan, and in 2008 was awarded the Shirley Jackson Award for “The Diving Pool,” a novella contained in the collection The Diving Pool. Over the course of the conversation, the woman completely abandons the task and focuses solely on what happened when her boyfriend came over, late, and told her that he felt an invisible force was holding him back from telling them and he hadn't even made it there. In many ways, her stories are all the more effective -- and terrifying -- because of their bland settings.

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The reader is presented with an acute description of what the protagonists, mostly but not always female, observe and feel and their somewhat alienated self-observations, some of which is a reflection of Japanese society and especially women's roles within in it. Ogawa's language is both spare and searingly precise, crystallizing the details of everyday existence and capturing the unexpected shock of the bizarre…. The experience of losing my son had taught me to read people, and I could tell immediately that this woman was genuine. At times you're not even sure right away whether the speaker is male or female, adding to the unsettling feelings.The light in the glass display case was pleasant and soft, the pastries looked beautiful, and the stool was quite comfortable—I liked the place, in spite of the service. Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from Yoko Ogawa. Have you ever read a story and realized that it has the power to completely restructure your thoughts?

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Seeing the mental health of others deteriorate before your eyes is terrifying - but it's just not scary enough.

A loss that makes you indifferent to many things that should matter and curious about things that should be morbid.

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J,” follows the path of the mysterious kiwis by closing the scope in on an elderly widow who keeps growing carrots in her garden in the shape of hands. The narrator is distressed by this, the idea of her not wearing it, of the heart not being inside the bag he made unbearable.The narrator then makes his way to the cardiac ward, and we begin to travel backwards to how he got to this point. My son had read his picture books so well that it seemed quite likely he might have had a leading role in a play one day. In “Tomatoes and the Full Moon,” the mere appearance of an odd stranger in the narrator’s hotel room immediately casts a pall over a brief resort vacation. The thrills are sometimes cheap and the connections between stories membrane thin, but Ogawa makes it count with her precision and dedication to bringing the vision full-circle.