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Disturbing, but not very insightful. The second and third stories in particular both feel lacking to me: they end too soon, and certain of the characters' motivations are either nonsensical or aren't elucidated enough. I'd recommend reading Ogawa's brilliant The Housekeeper and the Professor, or even reading the first story in this volume (which is still disturbing, but far more persuasively so), and skipping the last two novellas.
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A trio of eerie and unnerving novellas. The first two involve women inflicting needless cruelties on people helpless and dependent on them, but Ogawa strays away from creating caricatures or relying on obvious psychology. The third story, possibly the most complex and strange, involves a lonely woman befriending the triple-amputee landlord of a maybe-cursed dormitory complex. The ambiguous ending is frustrating, but nevertheless compelling. Ogawa’s use of language is both seductive and severely
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May 13, 2018
Shanthanu
marked it as to-read
Nov 07, 2024
Bailey
marked it as to-read
