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Yoko Ogawa (Author)
Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction
has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. Her
works include The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor,
Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, The Memory Police,
was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Stephen Snyder (Translator)
Stephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese Studies at
Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.
He has translated works by Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu,
among others. His translation of Natsuo Kirino's Out was a finalist
for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004, and his
translation of Yoko Ogawa's Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man
Asian Literary Prize in 2011.?
Ogawa is original, elegant, very disturbing
*Hilary Mantel*
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.
*Guardian*
[Revenge] Erupts into the ordinary world as if from the unconscious
or the grave…. A haunting introduction to her work… the overall
effect is [that of] David Lynch: the rot that lurks beneath the
surface
*Economist*
Fittingly, each tale seems to be its own torture chamber--dark and
meticulous… More disturbing than the bloody imagery is the eerie
calm with which each plot unfolds, as if one act of violence must
necessarily transform into the portal for another
*New Yorker*
Magnificently macabre… Ogawa is the Japanese master of dread… These
tales are not for the faint of heart, but Ms. Ogawa is more "Masque
of the Red Death" than she is The Ring. She elevates herself above
any limitations of the genre she's working in
*New York Observer*
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