He’s dead.” This simple tale of beauty turns into one of loss: Discovering it is the other woman’s son’s birthday, she asks his age, to which the reply is “Six. Eventually another customer enters and begins to have a conversation with the first woman. While normally a busy shop with a line out to the street, today it is eerily vacant. A woman enters a bakery to purchase a special treat for her son’s birthday. It doesn’t take long for Ogawa to get to the dark underneath this lovely scene. You could gaze at this perfect picture all day-an afternoon bathed in light and comfort-and perhaps never notice a single detail out of place, or missing.” The mother hurried over to gather the child in her arms.
A flock of pigeons burst into the air, and startled a baby who began to cry. A circle of children watched him, entranced. Squeaky sounds could be heard from a man off in the corner, who was twisting balloon animals. “Families and tourists strolled through the square, enjoying the weekend. Macabre, fiendishly clever, and with a touch of the supernatural, Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge creates a haunting tapestry of death–and the afterlife of the living.Revenge (1998) by Yoko Ogawa, Photo Credit: Natalie Getterįollowing an opening paragraph describing a beautiful Sunday in “Afternoon at the Bakery,” Ogawa creates a misleading scene with these ordinary descriptions of normal life:
Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders–their fates converge in a darkly beautiful web that they are each powerless to escape. But when the surgeon promises to repair her condition, he sparks the jealousy of another man who would like to preserve the heart in a custom tailored bag. Before she can follow-through on her crime of passion, though, the surgeon will cross paths with another remarkable woman, a cabaret singer whose heart beats delicately outside of her body. Meanwhile, a surgeon’s lover vows to kill him if he does not leave his wife. Years later, the writer’s stepson reflects upon his stepmother and the strange stories she used to tell him. An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from Yoko Ogawa. You can read this before Revenge PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Revenge written by Yoko Ogawa which was published in 1998–. Brief Summary of Book: Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
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