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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
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(Text) CC BY-SA