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050			_aPL858 _bOGA 2020
100			_a _d1962- _eauthor
245			_a Revenge : _beleven dark tales / _c
264			_aLondon : _bVintage Books, _c 2020.
300			_a168 pages ; 18 cm.
336			_1text _2rdacontent
337			_1unmediated _2rdamedia
338			_1volume _2rdacarrier
440			_aKamoku na shigai midara na tomurai.
500			_aOriginally published in Japan with the title 'Kamoku na shigai midara na tomurai', ♭1998. This translation first published: Harvill Secker, 2013. Short-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014 (UK)
520			_a A woman goes into a bakery to buy a strawberry cream tart. The place is immaculate but there is no one serving so she waits. Another customer comes in. The woman tells the new arrival that she is buying her son a treat for his birthday. Every year she buys him his favourite cake; even though he died in an accident when he was six years old. From this beginning Yoko Ogawa weaves a dark and beautiful narrative that pulls together a seemingly disconnected cast of characters. In the tradition of classical Japanese poetic collections, the stories in Revenge are linked through recurring images and motifs, as each story follows on from the one before while simultaneously introducing new characters and themes. Filled with breathtaking images, Ogawa provides us with a slice of life that is resplendent in its chaos, enthralling in its passion and chilling in its cruelty.
650			_a Short stories _xJapanese.
700			_a Snyder, Stephen, _d 1957- _etranslator
942			_2lcc _cBK _h858 _iOGA _kPL