In November 2020, the second Tajfuny book by Yōko Ogawa, the author of Ukochane równanie profesora [The Housekeeper and the Professor], was published. But this time it is not a warm, intimate story, but an emotionally exhaling wild ride.
Grobowa cisza, żałobny zgiełk [Revenge] translated by Anna Karpiuk are horrifying stories about longing, jealousy and death. Thirteen interconnected stories that draw us into a whirl of a world from which it is difficult to escape. A story that begins innocently – with a sunny day and a strawberry cake – will take us to the workshop of a leatherworker who sews a bag for a human heart, to a garden full of carrots in the shape of human hands, and to a museum of torture.
Grobowa cisza, żałoby zgiełk [Revenge] is a nested novel that delights the more the deeper we look into the elaborate box in which the author arranges her terrifyingly beautiful stories. You only need to open the lid…
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