The Diving Pool: Three Novellas - Paperback
by Yoko Ogawa
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Availability:In StockContributor:Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder (Translator), Laura Van Den Berg (Introduction by)Publish date:7/1/2025Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250375964ISBN-10:1250375967UPC:9781250375964Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:JapanSize:8.20 x 5.30 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC26ZKMFFS
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 teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a...Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250375964ISBN-10:1250375967UPC:9781250375964Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:JapanSize:8.20 x 5.30 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SC26ZKMFFS
Yoko Ogawa's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, and she has won Japan's most prestigious literary awards. Her books include The Housekeeper and the Professor, Revenge, and The Diving Pool.
Stephen Snyder teaches Japanese literature at Middlebury College. His translations include works...Publisher: Picador USA
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