Yōko Ogawa

A trio of novellas explores the mysteries of love, motherhood, fertility, obsession, innocence, and cruelty, in the stories of a lonely teenage girl who falls in love with her foster brother, a young woman who records her pregnant sister's daily moods ina

Three Novellas

The Diving Pool

this is so fascinating to read.. very disturbing and eerie way of telling s person’s everyday life. read it in one sitting. definitely a surprising one! 

ayoni

the part where it's like: 
“I was always watching you." This could have been a breathless declaration of love or a final farewell.”
LITERALLY ENDED ME I LOVED LOVED THIS QUOTE UGH 
the main character's obsessive-observant behavior is sooooo me? i can relate!!! but not in the creepy way bc i'm always alone and her narrative makes so much sense to me (as a fellow loner!!!) LONER GIRLS SOLIDARITY!!!

Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, but rather than a story of growth the diary reveals a more sinister tale of greed and repulsion. Driven by nostalgia, a woman visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo. There she finds an isolated world shadowed by decay, haunted by absent students and the disturbing figure of the crippled caretaker.

Jade Flynn

Quietly disturbing with a prose that haunts.

**** - Pregnancy Diary. 
*** - The Diving Pool, Dormitory.

Prashant Prasad

love her prose and ordinary characters; little slices of life. something very calming about it

The Diving Pool Three Novellas

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