![]() ![]() The nurse in “Lab Coats” plans to kill her lover, a surgeon, if he doesn’t leave his wife. J,” a surprisingly strong octogenarian, burns with contempt for her “lousy drunk” of a husband. Some of the obsessions portrayed in the stories of “Revenge,” first published in Japan in 1998, come from anger or resentment at partners or family. In her books that have been translated into English so far, Ogawa has shown a propensity for characters in the grip of obsessions, be they the benign mathematical fixation of the brain-injured scholar in “The Professor and the Housekeeper,” or the icky sexual preoccupations of a teenager and her older lover in “Hotel Iris.” Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow has some company in Japanese writer Yoko Ogawa, whose “Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales” is a storehouse of creepy and vicious behavior from otherwise normal-seeming people. ![]()
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