A thick veneer of Japanese decorum makes for deceptive placidity: characters act properly, yet often turn out to be quite off. The characters do not have to break into an abandoned post office or dig in a garden to find the macabre. The collection is written in her trademark simple elegance (and translated by the marvellous Stephen Snyder). The collection has been described repeatedly as “Japanese Gothic,” a label which captures some of the atmosphere of ominous mystery in the stories, but which fails to convey the sense of almost sterile anonymity of her characters, or the precision with which Ogawa slowly builds a sense of horror to a crescendo by the precise description and accrual of detail after detail.

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I love how she is able and willing to create meaningful stories with a darkly wise perspective, and without a trace of North American squeamishness.In her work, Ogawa tends to use female narrators who are distanced from those around them, aiding in the sometimes-strange predicaments they get themselves into. It's a language that doesn't announce its own frugality and refuses to make a minimalist's daring and obvious cuts. J, who owns the orchard and cultivates a large garden in the complex and distributes produce to her favorite tenants. if any other readers could tell what any other short story collections where I can find this writing style I would appreciate it! I have seen people include Revenge on reading through the decades challenges as their 1990s selection, and the book has gotten many positive reviews.

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Chociaż jest to książka o śmierci, czytając ją nie mogłam powstrzymać się w niektórych miejscach od uśmiechu, a wciągnęła mnie na tyle, że przeczytanie jej zajęło zaledwie chwilę. This touching story is centered around two things I thoroughly enjoy- baseball and a boy who loves both the sport and math.I thought he was just ashamed to look me in the eye because he had stayed away from home for three days.

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It reminded me of when I was a child, and the smell of the little greenhouse in the garden where my father used to raise orchids.Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, and has won every major Japanese literary award. As the perspective and point of view change from story to story, the reader feels ground shifting constantly.