![]() ![]() "ing economical and precise language, Ogawa conveys intensity of emotion" (Lucy Popescu Times Literary Supplement) "There are no perfect endings and certainly no heroes, just a series of interconnected lives in the city, as strange and morbid as each other but absorbing and beautiful" (Natsayi Sithole Irish Examiner) Ms Ogawa understands the consolations of order within apparent randomness" ( Economist) ![]() Yet the overall effect is more David Lynch: the rot that lurks beneath the surface of the world. There are fantastic flashes, such as a woman born with a heart outside her body. Ogawa has said her work is influenced by Haruki Murakami's magic-realist style. "The odd stories of Yoko Ogawa irrupt from the ordinary world as if from the unconscious or the grave. ![]()
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