The Pleasure of the Text

Review of Yōko Ogawa's Revenge


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Spoilers Alert!! What an amazing book to end the year on! Each short story in this collection of eleven is a stand alone piece, yet each is more than the sum of its parts, twisting together into a sinister, tangled, spider's web. Beware the carrots that grow in the shape of human hands, splattered tomatoes' on a highway that pop like human heads under car tyres, and a tiger-skinned coat that leaves you chilled to the bone. 
Given 5/5 stars by both your hosts this is a book worth reading cover-to-cover, where you end up where you started...

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