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The Diving Pool

by Stephen Snyder, Yōko Ogawa
The Diving Pool - Thryft
The Diving Pool - Thryft

Haunting tales of love, obsession, and cruelty.

The Diving Pool is a great read for those who enjoy dark and twisted stories. Yoko Ogawa's haunting tales explore the darker side of human nature, including themes of love, obsession, and cruelty. The novellas are beautifully written and will leave you pondering on the possibilities of human behavior. It's a great read for those who enjoy psychological thrillers and don't mind exploring the darker depths of the human psyche.

  • Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (2008)
  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2009)
  • Akutagawa Prize 芥川龍之介賞 (1990)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

The Diving Pool

by Stephen Snyder, Yōko Ogawa
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ISBN: 9781846551727
Authors: Stephen Snyder, Yōko Ogawa
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Date of Publication: 2008-07-03
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Horror
Related Topics: Japan, Japanese Literature, Asian Literature, Asia
Goodreads rating: 3.69
(rated by 7440 readers)

Description

From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, motherhood, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures contain a hairline crack of cruel intent.A lonely teenaged 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 which may or may not be a hallucination.Out of nostalgia, a woman 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 ordinary people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities.
 

Haunting tales of love, obsession, and cruelty.

The Diving Pool is a great read for those who enjoy dark and twisted stories. Yoko Ogawa's haunting tales explore the darker side of human nature, including themes of love, obsession, and cruelty. The novellas are beautifully written and will leave you pondering on the possibilities of human behavior. It's a great read for those who enjoy psychological thrillers and don't mind exploring the darker depths of the human psyche.

  • Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (2008)
  • Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2009)
  • Akutagawa Prize 芥川龍之介賞 (1990)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.