She can capture a scene in just a few words and your mind runs away with the rest, filling in the blanks to create extraordinary from the ordinary. Ogawa is a master of the short story genre, combining sparse prose with an unsettling, eerie feeling that runs through the entire book. If you enjoyed any of Yoko Ogawa’s previous books, you’ll enjoy Revenge. Yoko Ogawa is an expert in this – I found Hotel Iris to be the antithesis of Fifty Shades of Grey, combining submission with subversiveness and an unsettling undercurrent. I enjoy it, but it’s not always the happiest genre to read as many works combine the everyday with the surreal and the less desirable side of human nature. My friends often tease me about my love of Japanese literature labelling it ‘weird, strange and kooky’ (how dragons, vampires and werewolves are normal and quaint in comparison escapes me).
Why I read it: Sent to me by Random House – thank you! Strengths: It’s amazing how tangled up the stories are with each other, from motifs to characters to events. A quick rundown… Eleven stories all linked together featuring love, loss, anger and revenge.
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