The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
A Yoko Ogawa story collection in which enclosed daily life, warped desire, and emotional distance build a quiet but deeply unsettling atmosphere.
Work Information
A Yoko Ogawa story collection in which enclosed daily life, warped desire, and emotional distance build a quiet but deeply unsettling atmosphere.
A Yoko Ogawa story collection in which enclosed daily life, warped desire, and emotional distance build a quiet but deeply unsettling atmosphere.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Published
- 2008-01-22
- Pages
- 176 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 1.14 x 20.83 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780312426835
- ISBN-10
- 9780312426835
- Price
- 1372 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Single Author
The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors. From Akutagawa Prize-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a trio of novellas about love, motherhood, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures 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 boardinghouse 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.
Yoko Ogawa is the author of The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor , and Hotel Iris . Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space , and Zoetrope . Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her novel The Housekeeper and the Professor has been adapted into a film, The Professor's Beloved Equation. She lives in Ashiya, Japan, with her husband and son. Stephen Snyder teaches Japanese literature at Middlebury College. His translations include works by Kenzaburō Ōe, Ryu Murakami, Natsuo Kirino, and Miri Yu.
Reviews
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ありがとうございました。
対応迅速、美品。
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These three stories are not for the faint hearted. Each describes the mind of a lonely female figure, who leads a repetitive life. Cold and calculating.
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Liking an author may cause you to of her books; which is what I did... This book suggests a very different and difficult scenario than other books from Yoko Oshawa. There are mainly two characters; the others are only peripheral to the story but it does bring a big question mark when its end unfolds...
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Me gustó mucho, como todos los de Ogawa.
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Great read.
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Great work