The latest addition to my website isYōko Ogawa‘s 沈黙博物館 [Museum of Silence]. A Japanese museumologist is invited by a cantankerous elderly lady to set up a museum in the remote village where she and her adoptive daughter live. Only after a while does he learn what the museum is – a collection of items taken from the local dead, invariably without the knowledge or permission of the heirs, and which, in some way characterise them. Later still, he learns that he will be responsible for obtaining the items, essentially by theft. This is made particularly gruesome when there is a bomb attack which injures the daughter and kills a monk from a local silent order and, then later still, three separate brutal murders of young women. Indeed he is suspected by the police. Ogawa gradually builds up the tension as the museum is developed and our narrator travels around the area, while the police investigate. For what it is worth this is the 1000th novel by a woman reviewed on this site appropriately occurring during Women in Translation Month.