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

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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