The Diving Pool
Paperback Published on: 03/07/2014; Language: English, Japanese (Original language of a translated text)
Price: £8.99
Synopsis
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.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9780099521358
- Number of pages: 176
- Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 11 mm
- Weight: 129g
- Languages: English, Japanese (Original language of a translated text)
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Outstanding Writing
There are three short stories in this volume all about 50 pages each. They are all quite different but the quality of the writing is outstanding throughout... READ MORE
You are never safe in the world of Yoko Ogawa. And this is a token of her immense talent. It’s a shame that books like this one pass under the radar while piles and piles of...paper garbage are becoming more and more...popular.
‘’Since I was a little girl, I’ve disliked the thirtieth of December. I could always get through the thirty-first by telling myself that the year was final... READ MORE