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The Diving Pool

Cixin Liu

2009176 pagesabout 3–4 hours
2009
first published
  • 2009Random House Publishing Group · ENGISBN 9781409076193
  • 2009Penguin Random House · 176 pages · ENGISBN 9780099521358

The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's most celebrated, award-winning authors.Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa.A lonely teenaged girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - 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.Out of 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.

How it reads

Character focusSingle lead
CommitmentQuick escape

Worth knowing

Romance levelSubplot

When and where

Reading situationCommuteWaiting
ThemesLove
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