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Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales

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Author
  
Yōko Ogawa

Copyright date
  
2012

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Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales (寡黙な死骸みだらな弔い, Kamoku na shigai, Midara na tomurai) is a collection of short stories by Yōko Ogawa. It was published in Japan in 1998, and in the United States by Picador in 2013. Stephen Snyder translated the book into English.

Contents

Stories

  • "Afternoon at the Bakery"
  • "Fruit Juice"
  • "The Last Hour of the Bengal Tiger."
  • "The Man Who Sold Braces"
  • "Old Mrs. J"
  • "The Little Dustman"
  • "Sewing for the Heart"
  • "Welcome to the Museum of Torture"

    • Reception

    The work won the 2014 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist.

    Alan Cheuse of National Public Radio wrote that "this collection may linger in your mind — it does in mine — as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience."

    Kirkus Reviews wrote that the story was "well-written" and that "although the stories may be perceived as gruesome, the author paints each tale exquisitely."

    References

    Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales Wikipedia
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