Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales

Resumen del libro

A NEW NOVEL FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF THE HOUSEKEEPER AND THE PROFESSOR





Yoko Ogawa's Revenge is a secret garden of dark, glorious flowers: silky, heartbreakingly beautiful...and poison to their roots. Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns


Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from Yoko Ogawa.

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Years later, the writer's stepson reflects upon his stepmother and the strange stories she used to tell him. Meanwhile, a surgeon's lover vows to kill him if he does not leave his wife. Before she can follow-through on her crime of passion, though, the surgeon will cross paths with another remarkable woman, a cabaret singer whose heart beats delicately outside of her body. But when the surgeon promises to repair her condition, he sparks the jealousy of another man who would like to preserve the heart in a custom tailored bag. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders their fates converge in a darkly beautiful web that they are each powerless to escape.

Macabre, fiendishly clever, and with a touch of the supernatural, Yoko Ogawa's Revenge creates a haunting tapestry of death and the afterlife of the living.

? For readers of Natsuo Kirino and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Biografía del autor

Yoko Ogawa (Okayama, 1962) 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 y la magistral novela La Policía de la Memoria, que 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.