Full name: The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

Author: Yoko Ogawa Year: 1990 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780312426835 0312426836

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. Similar books: The Counterfeiter by Yasushi Inoue Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto Asleep by Banana Yoshimoto Seven Japanese Tales by Junichiro Tanizaki Beyond the Curve by Kobo Abe Patriotism by Yukio Mishima Hardboiled & Hard Luck by Banana Yoshimoto Death in Midsummer by Yukio Mishima Rashomon and Other Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata Revenge by Yoko Ogawa Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata Toddler-Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kono The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau