Revenge

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It was a fancy room for a rich man, the kind of place I’d like to live in myself. But there was one strange thing about it: every bare space was covered with some devise for torture. Mold can be quite beautiful," I told my husband. The spots multiplied, covering the shortcake in delicate blotches of color. These are] haunted characters who could have walked, quite coolly, out of a Joyce Carol Oates or Koji Suzuki creation…. Not recommended for bedtime reading.” — The Boston Phoenix At this late stage in Revenge, Ogawa has moved horror directly into a home. The characters do not have to break into an abandoned post office or dig in a garden to find the macabre. It is on display in plain sight, used just as a table or a chair or a record player. These stories are likely related but irrelevant. Some of the scenes are repeated but the stories were fresh. A bit confused here... hahaha

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The collection is written in her trademark simple elegance (and translated by the marvellous Stephen Snyder). And it's kinda "Olive Kitteridge-y" in that the stories are all linked to each other, even though they are stories that could stand on their own. All stories are disturbing and strange, and reading them is sort of like watching a thousand dominoes fall, one after the other, one hitting the next, causing an avalanche of weirdness. (A child folded up in a refrigerator, carrots that look like hands, a coat made from a tiger's fur, strawberry shortcake for a dead boy's birthday.) You're right," she said. "I can guarantee they're good. The best thing in the shop. The base is made with our special vanilla." This was fantastic. Read it in one sitting... It was so good/interesting how she weaved these 11 stories together. The stories were separate from each other (they were standalone stories) but connected. I find the concept very appealing....if any other readers could tell what any other short story collections where I can find this writing style I would appreciate it! I got the novel, The Wonder Years (Lauren Acampora) under the promise of a similar style (intersecting lives of one small town...these interwoven stories, but this was 100X better.Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales (Kamoku na shigai, midara na tomurai, 寡黙な死骸みだらな弔い,1998) Translated by Stephen Snyder, Picador, 2013. Rich, Motoko (2019-08-12). "Yoko Ogawa Conjures Spirits in Hiding: 'I Just Peeked Into Their World and Took Notes' ". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-02-09.

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Yet even when they snap -- the woman in the first story, trying to go to her son; the murderers -- the narratives, and the lives of the narrators, continue as coolly as always. The door that would not open no matter how hard you pushed, no matter how long you pounded on it. The screams no one heard. Darkness, hunger, pain. Slow suffocation" Totally unclassifiable (other reviewers have mentioned David Lynch, Haruki Murakami, even Roald Dahl), these are not really crime stories, though death is never far away and the stories quite often sidle up to a crime that has been committed. Only in the extraordinary Sewing for the Heart, significantly perhaps the central story in the book, is revenge the explicit theme. Instead Ogawa creates a disturbing, interconnected world where succeeding stories often show, just like a detective story, the events of the past in a new light. It’s a world where Old Mrs J, an “extremely slender woman” grows five-fingered carrots “plump, like a baby’s hand” and who periodically transforms herself into a formidable masseuse, seemingly capable of “wringing the life” from the body of a large, middle-aged man; a world in which braces are not bright red and holding up your trousers, but “resemble a dog’s collar… attached to the end of a long, narrow metal plate” and which immobilises a horrified teenager . “Just thirty minutes a day for six months” he is assured by an occasional “uncle”, “and you’ll be two inches taller”, the implement later ending up in pieces in a Museum of Torture. And it’s a world that turns full circle, as in the final story, where an old lady, despairing as a sensual relationship with a young pianist has ended, takes a final walk, enabling Ogawa to deliver a final heart-stopping twist, not only to the story but to the book as a whole.Excuse me," I called hesitantly. There was no reply, so I decided to sit down on a stool in the corner and wait.

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The motives of each character were there, yes, but I failed to comprehend why, exactly, they were acting as they did. Why did she want to torture her boyfriend? Why did he want to be in the possession of someone's beating heart? The perspectives started to blur for me. Every character seemed diabolical in the same twisted way. Which was perfectly fine, at first. Ogawa's subtle way of relating horrific incidents is morbidly fascinating. I don’t really know how to review this book bcz this is so different from anything I have ever read. This is a whole new style. Here is my feeble attempt at reviewing it. “I’m buying them for my son. Today is his birthday.”

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The Memory Police (Hisoyaka na kesshō, 密やかな結晶, 1994), translated by Stephen Snyder, Pantheon Books, 2019. Yōko Ogawa's prose is concise, intriguing, and beautiful. I know from her other works that she's a talented storyteller, perfectly capable of capturing the reader from the very first sentence she spins. And yet this collection fell a bit flat for me. And the ending. Well that was superb and yes, despite reading this short story, I do still love eating carrots in whatever form they come. Cheuse, Alan. " Under Ogawa's Macabre, Metafictional Spell." National Public Radio. February 18, 2013. Retrieved on May 31, 2015. Ogawa’s The Housekeeper and the Professor convinced me that she is not just a writer but also a complex and subtle intellectual. That there is a plan to Revenge and a key to understanding this plan therefore is therefore certain. Without this key, the work is intriguing but incomplete. In The Housekeeper and the Professor, it was the mathematical Euler’s Theorem. But what such a key could be in Revenge is, at least for the moments, beyond me.