On the Page: Yoko Ogawa and Alejandro Zambra
Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
Yoko Ogawa
(Picador, 176 pp., $14)
Be warned: side effects of reading Yoko Ogawa’s magnificently macabre Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales may include sleeplessness, shortness of breath and heart palpitations. Even the most sensitive reader’s cardiac issues, however, will not compare to those of one of the characters—a young woman whose heart is located on her chest, not in it. She may be the strangest inhabitant of Ms. Ogawa’s sinister world, but everybody else provokes at least as much discomfort as her condition. Read More
