The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors
From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent.
A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool--a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life.
A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a...
The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors
He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young Housekeeper--with a ten-year-old son--who is hired to care for the Professor. And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor's mind is still alive with elegant equations from...
He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term m...
A tale of twisted love from Yoko Ogawa--author of The Diving Pool and The Housekeeper and the Professor.
In a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the off-season customers. When one night they are forced to expel a middle-aged man and a prostitute from their room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man's voice, in what will become the first gesture of a single long seduction. In spite of her provincial surroundings, and her cool but controlling mother, Mari is a sophisticated observer of...
A tale of twisted love from Yoko Ogawa--author of The Diving Pool and The Housekeeper and the Professor.
"It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book... and] one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. Poe. Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. But this collection may linger in your mind -- it does in mine -- as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and somehow singular experience." --Alan Cheuse, NPR Sinister forces collide---and unite a host of desperate characters---in this eerie cycle of interwoven tales from Yoko Ogawa, the critically acclaimed author of The...
"It's not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book... and] one may detect a slight bow to the America...
Eine Frau wird als Haushälterin für einen verschrobenen Professor eingestellt, der jeden Tag aufs Neue vergisst, wer er ist. In ihrer zarten, eindringlichen Sprache erzählt Yko Ogawa eine berührende Geschichte über Freundschaft und Verlust - und über die Schönheit der Mathematik.
Eine Frau wird als Haushälterin für einen verschrobenen Professor eingestellt, der jeden Tag aufs Neue vergisst, wer er ist. In ihrer zarten, eindri...
Zwei Brüder, die einander alles bedeuten: Der ältere kümmert sich um die Vögel in einer großen Voliere, und er spricht eine Sprache, die allein sein Bruder versteht. Doch als er eines Tages stirbt, bleibt der jüngere einsam zurück. Schließlich übernimmt er die Obhut der Vögel, und es gelingt einer jungen Frau und einem alten Mann, sein Vertrauen zu gewinnen. Bis ein Unglück geschieht und der alte Mann spurlos verschwindet.
"Phantastisch, poetisch, skurril." Vogue
Zwei Brüder, die einander alles bedeuten: Der ältere kümmert sich um die Vögel in einer großen Voliere, und er spricht eine Sprache, die allein s...
