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“Itis not the darkness of Borges but additionally only Murakami that moves over this enchanting book… [and] you can identify a small bend to the National macabre of E.A. Poe. As another saying goes, Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants. But this selection might remain in your thoughts — it will in mine — like a tasty, complicated, absorbing and somehow single experience.” —Alan Cheuse, NPR Menacing forces collide---and combine a number of eager figures---in this spooky period of intertwined stories from Yoko Ogawa, the critically-acclaimed composer of The Housekeeper and the Professor. An ambitious writer moves right into a new house and finds that her landlady has killed her husband.