The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of what's billed as Eleven Dark Tales by Ogawa Yoko, Revenge.
As you may have guessed, I'm a fan (four of her other titles are under review at the complete review, though there are only three available in English), and I think this is the most successful and complete of the ones I've read -- there may be a bit more to some of the others, but they're not as elegantly put together, as whole. (Okay, maybe The Housekeeper and the Professor, but that one is also so damn tame, and what Ogawa does best is the decidedly not-so-tame stuff.)
A few observations:
- I say it's a novel, and should be read as such, not 'eleven tales'
- I say they should have tried some variation of the Japanese title -- 寡黙な死骸 みだらな弔い. Simple 'Revenge' ? Please .....
- The French have published so much Ogawa that they're collecting her works: check out volume one of Actes Sud's collected edition. Why do we lag so far behind ? And in the meantime: how do I get copies of all those French editions ?
As you may have guessed, I'm a fan (four of her other titles are under review at the complete review, though there are only three available in English), and I think this is the most successful and complete of the ones I've read -- there may be a bit more to some of the others, but they're not as elegantly put together, as whole. (Okay, maybe The Housekeeper and the Professor, but that one is also so damn tame, and what Ogawa does best is the decidedly not-so-tame stuff.)
A few observations:
- I say it's a novel, and should be read as such, not 'eleven tales'
- I say they should have tried some variation of the Japanese title -- 寡黙な死骸 みだらな弔い. Simple 'Revenge' ? Please .....
- The French have published so much Ogawa that they're collecting her works: check out volume one of Actes Sud's collected edition. Why do we lag so far behind ? And in the meantime: how do I get copies of all those French editions ?