The Diving Pool

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Dark, haunting tales of twisted affections.

If you're drawn to stories that delve into the complexities of human emotion and the darker edges of love and obsession, Yoko Ogawa's "The Diving Pool" could be a gripping read for you. It's not just a book; it's an experience that stays with you, unsettling yet beautiful in its narrative elegance. These are stories that might make you look closer at the seemingly mundane, revealing the eerie and haunting that lingers beneath the surface.

  • 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

Regular price RM44.30 MYR
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per
ISBN: 9780099521358
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Date of Publication: 2014-04-02
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Horror, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.69
(rated by 7985 readers)

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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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Dark, haunting tales of twisted affections.

If you're drawn to stories that delve into the complexities of human emotion and the darker edges of love and obsession, Yoko Ogawa's "The Diving Pool" could be a gripping read for you. It's not just a book; it's an experience that stays with you, unsettling yet beautiful in its narrative elegance. These are stories that might make you look closer at the seemingly mundane, revealing the eerie and haunting that lingers beneath the surface.

  • 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.