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The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

(ダイヴィング・プール / Daivingu pūru) — (妊娠カレンダー / Ninshin karendā) — (ドミトリイ / Domitorii)

Penned By Yōko Ogawa
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The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

(ダイヴィング・プール / Daivingu pūru) — (妊娠カレンダー / Ninshin karendā) — (ドミトリイ / Domitorii)

Penned By Yōko Ogawa
4.85 84,179 Ratings
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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.

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Length 164 Pages
Language Eng
Released 1988
Identifier (ISBN) 1337973
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