Revenge

Name: Revenge
Author: Yoko Ogawa

by Yoko Ogawa

Collection of darkly comic stories linked by themes of violence and twisted obsession

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About the author

Yoko Ogawa

Japanese novelist who writes in Japanese and is widely read in English translation. The Memory Police, her most celebrated novel, is a Kafkaesque exploration of disappearance and loss. Her work is admired for its quiet, unsettling power.

More by Yoko Ogawa

The Memory PoliceTotalitarian government makes citizens forget objects; woman hides contraband novels
Hotel IrisWoman's tangled affair with a young man mirrors her complex relationship to desire
The Diving PoolThree stories exploring desire and the darker impulses of an elite swimming pool
The Housekeeper and the ProfessorTender novella about an elderly mathematician, his memory-loss, and his caregiver's son