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The Diving Pool: Three Novellas de Yoko Ogawa

The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

Autor Yoko Ogawa Traducere de Stephen Snyder
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2007
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 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780312426835
ISBN-10: 0312426836
Pagini: 164
Dimensiuni: 137 x 208 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Picador USA

Notă biografică

Since 1988, Yoko Ogawa has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. She lives in Ashiya, Japan.

Recenzii

"Yoko Ogawa is able to give expression to the most subtle workings of human psychology in prose that is gentle yet penetrating."--Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Prize-winning author of "A Personal Matter" "Three beautifully-drawn and genuinely eerie stories. Each one builds an image that you can't quite shake out of your mind."--Aimee Bender, author of "The Girl in the Flammable Skirt" "What a strange and compelling little volume this is. Yoko Ogawa's fiction is like a subtle, psychoactive drug. Long after you read it, "The Diving Pool "will remain with you, shifting your vision, eroding your composure, raising questions about even the most seemingly conventional people you encounter. Her gift is to both reveal and preserve the mystery of human nature."--Kathryn Harrison, bestselling author of "The Kiss" "Ogawa is original, elegant, very disturbing. I admire any writer who dares to work on this uneasy territory--we're on the edge of the unspeakable. The stories seem to penetrate right to the heart of the world and find it a cold and eerie place. There are no narrative tricks, but the stories generate a surprising amount of tension. You feel as if you've touched an icy hand."--Hilary Mantel, author of "Beyond Black"

Descriere

From Akutagawa Prize-winning author 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.

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Pregnancy Diary
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