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THE DIVING POOL
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| By: |
Yoko Ogawa |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£10.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1846552176 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846552175 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
3 July, 2008 |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Description: |
A trio of novellas about love, motherhood, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures contain a hairline crack of cruel intent. This collection of novellas is about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities. |
| Synopsis: |
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 - 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. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Harvill Secker |
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Returnable |
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