VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list
Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, The Memory Police, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Beautiful...the extraordinary Yoko Ogawa casts her spell ...This is
a tale which will leave the reader gasping
*Irish Times*
Alive with mysteries both mathematical and personal, this novel has
the pared-down elegance of an equation
*Oprah magazine*
Strangely charming, flecked with enough wit and mystery to keep us
engaged throughout... fairy-tale surrealism and quiet spiritual
wisdom
*Washington Post*
This is one of those books written in such lucid, unpretentious
language that reading it is like looking into a deep pool of clear
water...Dive into Yoko Ogawa's world and you find yourself tugged
by forces more felt than seen
*New York Times*
Where Yoko Ogawa's brilliance lies is in taking such an apparently
stiff framework and bending it into a work of warmth and beauty; or
showing us that mathematics is not a cold, hard, science, but an
elegant, complex, shimmering art. This feat of literary
spoon-bending is accomplished with such calm elegance that it quite
takes the breath away
*The Times Book Club*
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