In “The Little Dustman”, the young narrator is on the way to his stepmother’s funeral, but the train is delayed by a snowstorm. Strangely, the husband’s corpse is found missing its hands, while the carrot crop yields hand-shaped carrots.

grows kiwis, and has murdered and buried her husband on the hill. J”, the narrator, a writer and stepmother, moves into a hilltop apartment building surrounded by gardens and orchards, and owned by Mrs. On the way home, deeply saddened, the girl breaks into a kiwi storage house to eat through her sadness. In “Fruit Juice”, the young girl who runs the bakery invites a boy to accompany her to meet her father for the first time since her mother is dying of cancer. The woman must impatiently wait on the girl who is running the bakery. Nothing in the woman’s life has been right since then, including her own suicide attempt, and her husband leaving her. She does this in honor of her son, who has been dead for twelve years. In “Afternoon at the Bakery”, a widowed mother heads to a bakery in her new neighborhood to purchase a strawberry shortcake. All of the stories deal with death or revenge in some way, shape, or form.

Macabre, fiendishly clever, and with a touch of the supernatural, Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge creates a haunting tapestry of death–and the afterlife of the living.“Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales” is a collection of eleven dark, short stories by Yoko Ogawa which have common strands of plot between them, but which stand on their own separately. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders–their fates converge in a darkly beautiful web that they are each powerless to escape. But when the surgeon promises to repair her condition, he sparks the jealousy of another man who would like to preserve the heart in a custom tailored bag. Before she can follow-through on her crime of passion, though, the surgeon will cross paths with another remarkable woman, a cabaret singer whose heart beats delicately outside of her body. Meanwhile, a surgeon’s lover vows to kill him if he does not leave his wife. Years later, the writer’s stepson reflects upon his stepmother and the strange stories she used to tell him. An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from Yoko Ogawa. You can read this before Revenge PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.

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