![]() ![]() It’s all very cleverly constructed, and part of the satisfaction in reading Revenge comes from spotting the connections between characters, scenes and narrative fragments throughout the collection. Characters flow from one story to the next we revisit specific locations and scenes from earlier tales, only to see things from a different viewpoint as our perspective has changed. ![]() Revenge is a stunning yet unsettling collection of eleven interlinked short stories while each individual tale works as a short story in its own right, they are elegantly connected by a set of recurring images and signifiers threaded through the stories. The other was Hiromi Kawakami for her novel Strange Weather in Tokyo which both Naomi and I have already reviewed for January in Japan, an annual focus on Japanese literature hosted by blogger (and fellow IFFP shadow-judge) Tony Malone – my review of Strange Weather Naomi’s review. Ogawa was one of two female writers from Japan to make the shortlist this year. ![]() When the I ndependent Foreign Fiction Prize (IFFP) longlist was announced in early March I was thrilled to see Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge among the contenders. This review was originally published as a guest post on The Writes of Women blog (25 th March 2014) and Naomi has kindly granted her permission for me to republish it here – I’ve held it till August to tie in with Biblibio’s Women in Translation month. ![]()
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