In 2006 she co-authored „An Introduction to the World's Most Elegant Mathematics“ with Masahiko Fujiwara, a mathematician, as a dialogue on the extraordinary beauty of numbers.Ī film in French, "L'Annulaire“ (The Ringfinger), directed by Diane Bertrand, starring Olga Kurylenko and Marc Barbé, was released in France in June 2005 and subsequently made the rounds of the international film festivals the film, some of which is filmed in the Hamburg docks, is based in part on Ogawa's "Kusuriyubi no hyōhon“ (薬指の標本), translated into French as "L'Annulaire“ (by Rose-Marie Makino-Fayolle who has translated numerous works by Ogawa, as well as works by Akira Yoshimura and by Ranpo Edogawa, into French). Her novel The Professor and his Beloved Equation has been made into a movie. Since 1988, she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction.
Yōko Ogawa ( 小川 洋子) was born in Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, graduated from Waseda University, and lives in Ashiya. Macabre, fiendishly clever, and with a touch of the supernatural, Yoko Ogawa’s Revenge creates a haunting tapestry of death-and the afterlife of the living. Murderers and mourners, mothers and children, lovers and innocent bystanders-their fates converge in a darkly beautiful web that they are each powerless to escape. But when the surgeon promises to repair her condition, he sparks the jealousy of another man who would like to preserve the heart in a custom tailored bag. Before she can follow-through on her crime of passion, though, the surgeon will cross paths with another remarkable woman, a cabaret singer whose heart beats delicately outside of her body. Meanwhile, a surgeon’s lover vows to kill him if he does not leave his wife. Years later, the writer’s stepson reflects upon his stepmother and the strange stories she used to tell him. Sinister forces draw together a cast of desperate characters in this eerie and absorbing novel from Yoko Ogawa.Īn aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband.
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