The diving pool : three novellas
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The diving pool : three novellas
Picador, 2008
1st ed
- : pbk
- Other Title
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ダイヴィング・プール
妊娠カレンダー
ドミトリイ
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"The diving pool was first published in Japan by Fukutake Shoten in Samenai kocha. Pregnancy diary and Dormitory were first published in Japan by Bungei Shunju in Ninshin karenda"--T.p. verso
"A Picador paperback original"--On spine
Contents of Works
- The diving pool
- Pregnancy diary
- Dormitory
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors
From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent.
A lonely teenage 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 that may or may not be a hallucination--but whose hallucination is it, hers or her sister's?
A woman nostalgically 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 normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities.
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