Revenge

"As you read this weird and mesmerizing collection you find Yoko Ogawa ascending into an orbit at least as high as Haruki Murakami’s — as in the story “Sewing for the Heart,” which features a bag designer whose customer is a woman with her heart growing on the outside of her chest; or in the flatly told but utterly bizarre trio of linked stories “Welcome to the Museum of Torture,” “The Man Who Sold Braces” and “The Last Hour of the Bengal Tiger.” Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as the saying goes. But this collection may linger in your mind — it does in mine — as a delicious, perplexing, absorbing and paradoxically singular experience."