The diving pool: three novellas
The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors
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.
Grouping Information
| Grouped Work ID | b59fd539-4c23-0c34-10c9-2db2613a7734 |
|---|---|
| full_title | diving pool three novellas |
| author | ogawa yōko |
| grouping_category | book |
| lastUpdate | 2017-08-16 06:35:08AM |
Solr Details
| _version_ | 1576153905662787584 |
|---|---|
| accelerated_reader_interest_level | |
| accelerated_reader_point_value | 0 |
| accelerated_reader_reading_level | 0 |
| auth_author2 | Snyder, Stephen, 1957- |
| author | Ogawa, Yo?ko, 1962- |
| author-letter | Ogawa, Yo?ko, |
| author2 | Snyder, Stephen, 1957- |
| author2-role | Snyder, Stephen,1957- |
| author_additional | Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder. |
| author_display | Ogawa, Yo?ko |
| availability_toggle_arlington | Available Now, Entire Collection |
| available_at_arlington | Westover |
| callnumber-a | PL858.G37 |
| callnumber-first | P - Language and Literature |
| callnumber-subject | PL - Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania |
| callnumber_sort_arlington | F OGAWA |
| collection_arlington | Adult Fiction |
| date_added | 2011-01-26T05:00:00Z |
| days_since_added | 2397 |
| detailed_location_arlington | Central Adult Fiction, Westover Adult Fiction |
| display_description | |
| format_arlington | Book |
| format_boost | 10 |
| format_category_arlington | Books |
| grouping_category | book |
| id | b59fd539-4c23-0c34-10c9-2db2613a7734 |
| isbn | 9780312426835 |
| item_details | ils:.b13062402|.i13416522|Central Adult Fiction|F OGAWA|||1|false|false|||||Due Aug 19, 2017|Dec 06, 2015|caf||, ils:.b13062402|.i13416534|Westover Adult Fiction|F OGAWA|||1|false|false|||||On Shelf|Aug 08, 2017|waf|| |
| itype_arlington | Paperback |
| language | English |
| language_boost | 10 |
| language_boost_es | 1 |
| lexile_score | -1 |
| lib_boost_arlington | 50 |
| literary_form | Fiction |
| literary_form_full | Fiction |
| local_callnumber_arlington | F OGAWA |
| local_callnumber_exact_arlington | F OGAWA |
| local_callnumber_left_arlington | F OGAWA |
| local_days_since_added_arlington | 2397 |
| num_holdings | 2 |
| oclc | (OCoLC)156832513 |
| owning_library_arlington | Arlington Public Library, Aurora Hills, Central, Cherrydale, Columbia Pike, Connection Crystal City, Detention Center, Glencarlyn, Local History, Plaza, Shirlington, Westover |
| owning_location_arlington | Central, Westover |
| physical | 164 p. ; 21 cm. |
| popularity | 7 |
| primary_isbn | 9780312426835 |
| publishDate | 2008 |
| publishDateSort | 2008 |
| publisher | Picador, |
| rating | 2.5 |
| rating_facet | oneStar, twoStar |
| record_details | ils:.b13062402|Book|Books||English|Picador,|2008.|164 p. ; 21 cm. |
| recordtype | grouped_work |
| scope_has_related_records | a, arlington, c, d, g, h, o, p, s, u, v, w |
| scoping_details_arlington | ils:.b13062402|.i13416522|Checked Out|Checked Out|false|false|true|false|false|true|999|||, ils:.b13062402|.i13416534|On Shelf|On Shelf|false|true|true|false|false|true|999||| |
| subject_facet | Ogawa, Yo?ko, -- 1962- -- Translations into English |
| table_of_contents | Diving pool -- Pregnancy diary -- Dormitory. |
| target_audience | Adult |
| target_audience_full | Adult |
| title | The diving pool : three novellas |
| title_alt | Dormitory., Pregnancy diary. |
| title_display | The diving pool : three novellas |
| title_full | The diving pool : three novellas / Yoko Ogawa ; translated by Stephen Snyder |
| title_short | The diving pool : |
| title_sort | diving pool three novellas |
| title_sub | three novellas |
| translation | Japanese |
