Revenge

The Diving Pool

The Housekeeper and the Professor

Hotel Iris

About the Author

Yoko Ogawa’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Harper’s Magazine. Since 1988, she has produced more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, which have been translated into more than twenty languages. Her novel Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize.

Stephen Snyder teaches Japanese literature at Middlebury College. His translations include works by Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, Natsuo Kirino, and Miri Yu.

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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in these stories are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

REVENGE. Copyright © 1998 by Yoko Ogawa. English translation copyright © 2013 by Stephen Snyder. All rights reserved. For information, address Picador, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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“Old Mrs. J” originally appeared in Harper’s Magazine, in slightly different form. “Afternoon at the Bakery” appeared in Zoetrope: All Story. “The Last Hour of the Bengal Tiger” appeared in Guernica.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Ogawa, Yoko, 1962–

[Kamoku na shigai, Midara na tomurai. English]

Revenge: eleven dark tales / Yoko Ogawa; translated by Stephen Snyder. — 1st U.S. ed.

p. cm.

“Originally published in Japan under the title Kamoku na shigai, Midara na tomurai by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha”— T.p. verso.

ISBN 978-0-312-67446-5 (trade paperback)

ISBN 978-1-250-01617-1 (e-book)

1. Ogawa, Yoko, 1962–—Translations into English.   2.  Psychological fiction. I. Snyder, Stephen, 1957– II. Title.

PL858.G37K3613 2013

895.6’35—dc23

2012037099

eISBN 9781250016171

Originally published as Kamoku na shigai, Midara na tomurai in Japan by Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha. English translation rights arranged with Yoko Ogawa through Japan Foreign-Rights Centre/Anna Stein.

First U.S. Edition: February 2013