Revenge

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But overall the bundle kept me really engaged, I loved the interconnections and some of the poetic and disturbing images Yōko Ogawa paints: like a child in a refrigerator, an abandoned building full of kiwi's, a rotting strawberry cheesecake or carrots shaped like hands. She looked down at the phone for a moment, then she heaved a deep sigh and dabbed at her tears with the napkin. Something that should, by all rights, exist is lacking, while the extraneous thing that is left achieves a kind of warped excess. In Revenge, Ogawa flexes her storytelling muscle by weaving together a series of tales, each one focusing on a character from the story before it and acting as a set of Russian nesting dolls in her usual world of macabre.

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An old woman I had never seen before was standing nearby, looking dazed, and I realized that she must have been the one who had found him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are reintroduced to one another, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. The narrator comes across his lab coat, and as she takes note of it and shakes it, a tongue falls out of the pocket. But this collection may linger in your mind -- it does in mine -- as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience. Filled with breathtaking images, Ogawa provides us with a slice of life that is resplendent in its chaos, enthralling in its passion and chilling in its cruelty.My son had read his picture books so well that it seemed quite likely he might have had a leading role in a play one day. Only in the extraordinary Sewing for the Heart, significantly perhaps the central story in the book, is revenge the explicit theme.

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Ogawa changes narrators from story to story, but they all share a sense of isolation and displacement from their surroundings and fellow characters. Using spare strokes and macabre detail, Ogawa creates an intense vision of limited lives and the twisted ingenuity of people trapped within them.They are sitting in front of a closed post-office that has been there since they were children and, curious, the girl decides to take a look inside. She states he is always full of excuses, when it comes to telling his wife, why he is late, or whenever he breaks off plans. The narrator is very attracted to the woman she's working with, to the point of ignoring rather large faults in her personality, such as her tendency to talk only about herself, her blaming a mistake in a presentation for a doctor on the narrator, and the fact that her boyfriend is a married doctor with children.

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On Saturday, when they meet, the girl reveals that her mother is dying has instructed her to contact a man who she has never met, who we are made to understand is her father. Instead Ogawa creates a disturbing, interconnected world where succeeding stories often show, just like a detective story, the events of the past in a new light.Kocham "Ukochane równanie profesora", ale według mnie Ogawa osiąga mistrzostwo nie w ciepłych powieściach, a w creepy klimatach, w książkach, które wyciągają na światło to, co z reguły wolimy ukryć, ale robi to w taki sposób, że nie da się przestać tego czytać, bo nawet w tym mroku znajduje piękno. As I pushed through the revolving door of the bakery and walked inside, the noise of the square was instantly muffled, and replaced by the sweet scent of vanilla. Because of an apparent birth defect, it rests outside her chest, exposed and “cowering in fear, the blood vessels trembling with each contraction. I got the novel, The Wonder Years (Lauren Acampora) under the promise of a similar style (intersecting lives of one small town. The premise of these tales takes place in one town over a course of what could be days, weeks, or months.