{"product_id":"the-diving-pool-yoko-ogawa-9781529955712","title":"The Diving Pool (Yoko Ogawa)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree strange, tortuous stories from the shadow queen of contemporary Japanese fiction. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDriven 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 unsettling figure of the looming caretaker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eYoko Ogawa\u003c\/b\u003e has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZoetrope\u003c\/i\u003e. Her works include \u003ci\u003eThe Diving Pool\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Housekeeper and the Professor,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eHotel Iris \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eRevenge. \u003c\/i\u003eHer dystopian novel,\u003ci\u003e The Memory Police\u003c\/i\u003e, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.\n\u003cp\u003eStephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe has translated works by Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu, among others. His translation of Natsuo Kirino's \u003ci\u003eOut \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004, his translation of Yoko Ogawa's\u003ci\u003e Hotel Iris \u003c\/i\u003ewas shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011 and \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Police\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 176 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65925096374621,"sku":"K098535364","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9853536400001A.jpg?v=1789429782","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-diving-pool-yoko-ogawa-9781529955712","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}