The Diving Pool
Three Novellas
by 小川洋子
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The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's most celebrated, award-winning authors.Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa.A lonely teenaged girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, but rather than a story of growth the diary reveals a more sinister tale of greed and repulsion.Out of nostalgia, a woman visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo. There she finds an isolated world shadowed by decay, haunted by absent students and the disturbing figure of the crippled caretaker.
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Fiction, Literature, Translations into English, Fiction, short stories (single author), Japan, fiction, Pregnancy, fiction, Young women, fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Sisters, fiction, Japanese literature, Ogawa, yōko , 1962-, Japanese literature--20th century, Pl858.g37 a6 2008, 895.6/35| Edition | Availability |
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The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
January 22, 2008, Picador
Paperback
in English
0312426836 9780312426835
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