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Venganza: Once Relatos Oscuros / Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales (Short Stories) - by  Yoko Ogawa (Paperback) - 1 of 1

Venganza: Once Relatos Oscuros / Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales (Short Stories) - by Yoko Ogawa (Paperback)

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  • Una brecha en el corazón humano que permite atisbar las pesadillas ocultas.
  • Author(s): Yoko Ogawa
  • 288 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Noir

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Una brecha en el corazón humano que permite atisbar las pesadillas ocultas.


«Al leer Venganza uno queda atrapado en una telaraña hermosa, letal.» Words Without Borders


Una mujer que espera a que la atiendan en una pastelería devela, conversando con otra clienta, su tragedia: va a comprar dos tartitas de fresas con nata para celebrar el cumpleaños de su hijo, un niño que, sin embargo, murió años atrás. Con este relato arranca este volumen compuesto por once cuentos entrelazados: en cada uno de ellos, un detalle a veces ínfimo evoca el relato anterior, anuncia el siguiente o cambia completamente la perspectiva, hasta formar una espiral vertiginosa. Los protagonistas no tienen, aparentemente, nada en común: dos alumnos de instituto, una novelista y su extraña casera, un joven que viaja al entierro de su madre adoptiva, dos trabajadoras de hospital, una cantante que encarga un bolso, una joven que trata de descubrir la infidelidad de su marido o una insistente mujer empeñada en seguir a un periodista que redacta un reportaje sobre un hotel de lujo. Sin embargo, poco a poco el lector vuelve a encontrárselos, para revelar un aspecto oculto del ser humano.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION


A breach in the human heart that lets us glimpse hidden nightmares.


"Reading Vengeance traps you in a beautiful, lethal web." Words Without Borders


A woman waiting to be served in a pastry shop reveals, while talking to another customer, her tragedy: she is buying two strawberry cream tarts to celebrate her son's birthday, a child who, however, died years ago. This story opens a volume made up of eleven interlinked short stories: in each one, a sometimes tiny detail evokes the previous tale, foreshadows the next, or completely changes perspective, forming a dizzying spiral. The protagonists apparently share nothing in common: two high-school students, a novelist and her strange landlady, a young man traveling to his adoptive mother's funeral, two hospital workers, a singer ordering a handbag, a young woman trying to uncover her husband's infidelity, and an insistent woman determined to follow a journalist writing a piece about a luxury hotel. Yet gradually the reader meets them again, revealing a hidden aspect of the human being.



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"Estas historias parecen penetrar hasta el corazón del mundo para descubrir que es un lugar frío y espeluznante." Hilary Mantel


"No solo es Murakami, sino también la sombra de Borges lo que planea sobre este fascinante libro." NPR


"El efecto general es el de David Lynch." The Economist


"Ogawa es la maestra japonesa del terror." New York Observer


"Como Haruki Murakami, Ogawa escribe historias que navegan libremente en cualquier cultura, y que, en cambio, se anclan en el paisaje de la mente." The Washington Post


Dimensions (Overall): 7.3 Inches (H) x 4.9 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .44 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 288
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Noir
Publisher: Planeta Publishing
Format: Paperback
Author: Yoko Ogawa
Language: Spanish
Street Date: January 27, 2026
TCIN: 1008014332
UPC: 9786073924733
Item Number (DPCI): 247-52-9853
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship weight: 0.44 pounds
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