Revenge by Yoko Ogawa October 19, 2024 by ingres77 Leave a Comment This is an anthology of interconnected short stories that takes place in Tokyo in an indeterminate time, but presumably sometime in the 1990s.
Last year I reviewed three Red Circle Minis which are original Japanese short stories and they introduced me to new authors. I felt these books were a great way to break free from the familiar Murakami-novel moulds to explore more fiction set in Japan. I was pleased to read yet another wo...
Whatever we call them, both types of short stories are equally legitimate.I call them ‘genre’ and ‘lyrical’ short stories. Stephen King’s short stories are genre; Katherine Mansfield’s are lyrical. In order to get the most out of a lyrical short story we need to take a long, hard...