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 br
Dans un ancien foyer de jeunes filles transformé en laboratoire, M. Deshimaru, taxidermiste du souvenir, prépare et surveille des "spécimens", tandis que la narratrice de ce récit, assistante et réceptionniste, accueille les clients venus confier au
Un jeune muséographe vient d'entrer en fonction dans un manoir aux confins du monde. Sous la direction d'une vieille femme plutôt étrange, il devra recenser, agencer, mettre en scène une véritable collection d'objets, de reliques du quotidien, de ves
Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from Yoko Ogawa.An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband. Years later, the writer’s stepson refl
From the deeply unsettling to the possibly supernatural, these thirty-one border-crossing stories from around the world explore the uncanny in literature, and delve into our increasingly unstable sense of self, home, and planet. The Uncanny Reader: Storie
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
