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The diving pool : three novellas / Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder.

by Ogawa, Yōko, 1962-

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Picador, c2008.

Japan -- Fiction.

9780312426835 (trade pbk.)

0312426836 (trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

The diving pool.

Pregnancy diary.

164 p. ; 21 cm.

"A Picador paperback original."--Front cover

The diving pool -- Pregnancy diary -- Dormitory.

"From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may 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 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 normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities."--Publisher description.

Japanese fiction -- Translations into English.

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