The Diving Pool

Author: Yoko Ogawa

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  • : 9781846551727
  • : Harvill Secker
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  • : 01 July 2008
  • : 215mm X mm
  • : United Kingdom
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  • : Yoko Ogawa
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  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9781846551727
9781846551727

Local Description

2008. A trade paperback copy in near fine condition.

Description

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

Author description

Since 1988, YOKO OGAWA has published more than 20 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.