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The Diving Pool

Ogawa, YokoSnyder, Stephen(Translated by)
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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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Vintage
0099521350 / 9780099521358
Paperback / softback
895.635
02/04/2009
United Kingdom
English
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164 pages
20 cm
Reprint. Dormitory and Pregnancy diary were first published together in Japanese under the collective title Ninshin Karenda This edition of this translation originally published: London: Harvill Secker, 2008. Contents: The diving pool -- Pregnancy diary -- Dormitory.