Revenge
$23.22
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2024
Summary
Elegant novellas-in-translation, VINTAGE EDITIONS celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE
“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
Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529949100 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529949106 |
| Author: | Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2024 |
| Weight: | 130g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 11mm |
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About The Author
Yoko Ogawa
Yoko Ogawa is a celebrated Japanese author who has received every major literary award in Japan. Her fiction has been featured in prominent publications such as The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Her notable works include The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris, and Revenge. Her dystopian novel, The Memory Police, was a finalist for the International Booker Prize.
Stephen Snyder is a translator and a professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College in Vermont, USA. He has translated works by acclaimed authors including Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu. His translation of Natsuo Kirino’s Out was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel in 2004. Snyder’s translations of Yoko Ogawa’s novels have also garnered significant recognition, with Hotel Iris being shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011 and The Memory Police shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020.
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