The result is a profound unease that spreads out and permeates the narrative.
" 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. candidate who tends to overwrite: Ogawa is an expert in doing more with less." - New York Magazine It's a book that ought to be distributed to every fiction-M.F.A.
"Every act of malice glows creepily against the plain background. Even while punctuated macabre flourishes her book maintains its restraint, like a dark alley that's too quiet, or an insane person acting too calm." -Susannah Meadows, The New York Times Ogawa has come up with many ways to get there. the overall effect is David Lynch: the rot that lurks beneath the surface." - The Economist " Erupts into the ordinary world as if from the unconscious or the grave. "Equally seductive and unsettling, these tales overwhelm the reader with sinister dreamscapes, each exquisitely rendered in cool, precise prose that has been rightfully compared to that of fellow Japanese author Haruki Murakami.her tales will long linger in the mind." - San Francisco Chronicle She elevates herself above any limitations of the genre she's working in." - The New York Observer Ogawa is more "Masque of the Red Death" than she is The Ring. These tales are not for the faint of heart, but Ms. More disturbing than the bloody imagery is the eerie calm with which each plot unfolds, as if one act of violence must necessarily transform into the portal for another." - The New Yorker "Fittingly, each tale seems to be its own torture chamber-dark and meticulous. These are shiningly sinister stories that grab you by the vulnerable back of the neck and don't let go." - Elle But this collection may linger in your mind - it does in mine - as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience." -Alan Cheuse, NPR Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. "It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book. "Yoko Ogawa is an absolute master of the Gothic at its most beautiful and dangerous, and Revenge is a collection that deepens and darkens with every story you read." -Peter Straub "A secret garden of dark, glorious flowers: silky, heartbreakingly beautiful.and poison to their roots." -Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns
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