J a woman apparently kills in revenge for being trapped in a disappointing marriage in Lab Coats another woman kills because her married lover prevaricates about ditching his wife in Sewing for the Heart a bag maker kills because, as he sees it, a customer rejects the bag he has crafted for her, to hold her heart, which lies outside her chest, and hence she also rejects him. Granted, some seem to concern marital, or romantic, revenge: in Old Mrs. What few of the stories seem to be about, or at least not obviously, is revenge. Revenge, by Yoko Ogawa, translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder, is a mesmerising, weird, and elusive meditation on.what, precisely? Coming up with possible answers to that question is one of the many engrossing challenges of reading Revenge, a collection of eleven short stories, each bound to others by cobwebby chains of connection, and each giving glimpses of the world seen through a most dark-adapted eye.
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