The Diving Pool

Informationen zum Autor Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker , A Public Space and Zoetrope . Her works include The Diving Pool , The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, The Memory Police , was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Stephen Snyder is a translator and professor of Japanese Studies at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA. He has translated works by Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, and Miri Yu, among others. His translation of Natsuo Kirino’s Out was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004, and his translation of Yoko Ogawa’s Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011.? Klappentext Three novellas from one of contemporary Japan's most celebrated authors. First major English translation. 'Elegant! intelligent and quietly upsetting.' "Financial Times". Yoko Ogawa's novel "The Housekeeper And The Professor" sold 2 million copies. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Yoko Ogawa, Ogawa Yoko
• Assisted by: Stephen Snyder (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780099521358
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952135-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Japan, FICTION / Literary, Dark Romance, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Gothic