The diving pool

Author(s)

• 小川, 洋子 オガワ, ヨウコ
• Snyder, Stephen

Bibliographic Information

The diving pool

Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder

Vintage, 2009

• : pbk

Other Title

夕暮れの給食室と雨のプール

妊娠カレンダー

ドミトリイ

Note

Originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2008

Translated from the Japanese

Contents of Works

• The diving pool
• Pregnancy diary
• Dormitory

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking 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. Driven by 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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Details

• NCID: BA91700541
• ISBN:
  • 9780099521358
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: jpn
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 164 p.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 895.635
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Ogawa, Yōko, 1962-