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The Diving Pool

The Diving Pool

by YokoOgawa (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

    $46.51

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    Paperback 2009

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Synopsis

From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, motherhood, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures contain a hairline crack of cruel intent. A lonely teenaged girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, taking meticulous note of a pregnancy which may or may not be a hallucination. Out of nostalgia, a woman visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boarding house run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg. Hauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, The Diving Pool is a disquieting and, at times, darkly humorous collection of novellas about ordinary people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: Airports / Export Ed
 Publisher: Harvill Secker
Published: 03 Jul 2008
ISBN 10: 1846551722
ISBN 13: 9781846551727
Book Overview: The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's most celebrated,award-winning authors.

Media Reviews
Ogawa's tales possess a gnawing, erotic edge * Publishers Weekly *
Ogawa is original, elegant, very disturbing. I admire any writer who dares to work on this uneasy territory - we're on the edge of the unspeakable. The stories seem to penetrate right to the heart of the world, and find it a cold and eerie place. Her spare technique is very skilled. Every word is put to work. She sets up a small vibration, a disturbance, which begins quietly and generates wider and wider ripples of unease. There are no narrative tricks, but the stories generate a surprising amount of tension. You feel as if you've touched an icy hand * Hilary Mantel, author of Beyond Black *
Yoko Ogawa is able to give expression to the most subtle workings of human psychology in prose that is gentle yet penetrating. * Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Prize Winning author of A Personal Matter *
Author Bio
Since 1988, Yoko Ogawa has written more than 20 works of fiction and non-fiction, and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope.