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The Diving Pool : Three Novellas by Yôko Ogawa is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Diving Pool : Three Novellas about?
The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authorsFrom 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 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.
Who reads The Diving Pool : Three Novellas?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Yôko Ogawa
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker : [distributor] TBS The Book Service Ltd
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781846551727
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Short Stories, Contemporary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.7 / 5 (2,511 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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