The diving pool
Subtitle: three novellas
By: Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder
Contributors: Snyder, Stephen, 1957-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harvill Seeker
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781846551727; 9781846552175
Subjects: Translations into English; Short stories
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Diving pool; title: Pregnancy diary; title: Dormitory.