{"product_id":"revenge-yoko-ogawa","title":"Revenge (Yoko Ogawa)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM THE AUTHOR OF \u003ci\u003eTHE MEMORY POLICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A conspicuously gifted writer...To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMurderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders - locked in the embrace of an ominous and darkly beautiful web, their fates all converge through the eleven stories here in Yoko Ogawa's \u003ci\u003eRevenge.\u003c\/i\u003e As tales of the macabre pass from character to character - an aspiring writer, a successful surgeon, a cabaret singer, a lonely craftsman - Ogawa provides us with a slice of life that is resplendent in its chaos, enthralling in its passion and chilling in its cruelty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Stephen Snyder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElegant, novellas-in-translation, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eYoko Ogawa\u003c\/b\u003e has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZoetrope\u003c\/i\u003e. Her works include \u003ci\u003eThe Diving Pool\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Housekeeper and the Professor,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHotel Iris \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRevenge. \u003c\/i\u003eHer dystopian novel,\u003ci\u003e The Memory Police\u003c\/i\u003e, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.\n\u003cp\u003eStephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe has translated works by Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu, among others. His translation of Natsuo Kirino's \u003ci\u003eOut \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004, his translation of Yoko Ogawa's\u003ci\u003e Hotel Iris \u003c\/i\u003ewas shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011 and \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Police\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 176 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65784838553949,"sku":"K097624493","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9762449300001A.jpg?v=1788348564","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/revenge-yoko-ogawa","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}