{"product_id":"the-diving-pool-yoko-ogawa","title":"The Diving Pool (Yoko Ogawa)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Akutagawa Prize-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a trio of novellas about love, motherhood, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures contain a hairline crack of cruel intent. \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-a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boardinghouse run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, \u003ci\u003eThe Diving Pool\u003c\/i\u003e is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eYoko Ogawa\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Diving Pool,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Housekeeper and the Professor\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHotel Iris\u003c\/i\u003e. Her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, A Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eZoetrope\u003c\/i\u003e. Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Housekeeper and the Professor\u003c\/i\u003e has been adapted into a film, The Professor's Beloved Equation. She lives in Ashiya, Japan, with her husband and son.\n\u003cb\u003eStephen Snyder\u003c\/b\u003e teaches Japanese literature at Middlebury College. His translations include works by Kenzabur   e, Ryu Murakami, Natsuo Kirino, and Miri Yu.\nLaura van den Berg is the author of the story collections \u003ci\u003eWhat the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Isle of Youth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eI Hold a Wolf by the Ears\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novels \u003ci\u003eFind Me, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Third Hotel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eState of Paradise. \u003c\/i\u003eShe is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award and a Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Bard Fiction Prize, a PEN\/O. Henry Award, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, among other honors. She is the Director of Creative Writing at Harvard University and lives with her husband in Hudson, New York.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 192 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65822995087709,"sku":"K098253004","price":15.1,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9825300400001A.jpg?v=1788647425","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-diving-pool-yoko-ogawa","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}