false 1337973 10 2542259 book 1995 The Diving Pool: Three Novellas total:178|5:37|4:75|3:46|2:15|1:5| 178 658 301 54 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 5 2 false Thu Mar 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 23 22:34:24 -0800 2007 Sat Jul 19 16:49:34 -0700 2008 The New Yorker over two years ago and instantly fell for her prose. A novel that was supposed to come out last year never arrived, and it's been one long tease.

Ogawa writes with unfettered, graceful prose...more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 0 2 false Wed Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 28 07:35:13 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 23 07:44:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 0 3 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 15:59:59 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 22 11:54:36 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6494861 9780099521358 7 2 3.70 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243279057m/6494861.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6494861-the-diving-pool 4 0 false Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 02:19:30 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 02:17:39 -0700 2009
-The children here suffered from almost every imaginable misfortune, yet it struck me as particularly bad luck to have both parents go crazy, one after the ot...more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 4 1 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 06:56:32 -0700 2008 Thu May 29 08:19:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 5 0 false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 13:37:29 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 18:52:47 -0800 2009
Ogawa has a reserved and distanced w...more...]]> 3698697 1846552176 9781846552175 2 2 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3698697.The_Diving_Pool 5 1 false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 13 04:53:46 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 06:38:30 -0700 2009 There is something distinctively satisfying in the simplistic form and aural quality of Japanese writings. For me, at least, reading a verse that was originally written in Japanese can feel like listening to myself speak in a calm and meditative voice—almost as if I were a Zen monk uttering a vene...

more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 3 0 false Wed Feb 04 02:08:45 -0800 2009 Fri Apr 03 10:26:38 -0700 2009 The Diving Pool by Ogawa Yoko is a fascinating slice of fiction . This collection contains three novellas that are curiously interesting, but also disquieting. Reminiscent of Yoshimoto Banana, Tawada Yoko, and Yamada Taichi to name a few, Ogawa invents realities that are bizarre. Her settings and...more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 3 0 false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 15:13:02 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 17:49:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 5 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 20:25:38 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 20:29:13 -0800 2008 Pregnancy Diary, which won the prestigious Akutagawa prize for rising Japanese artists, was published in the literary journal Bungakuka...more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 4 0 false Tue Nov 11 21:03:44 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 21:04:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 5 0 false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 22 15:22:45 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 22 15:23:16 -0700 2008
So when I saw “The D...more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 3 0 false Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 13:53:11 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 22:52:19 -0800 2009 The Diving Pool 2**
Pregnancy Diary 1/2*
Dormitory 1/2*

Basically, the eponymous The Diving Pool was an easy 2** out of five. If either story had scored as highly, the other story would have had the chance of making this book a 5...more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 4 0 false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 09:25:48 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 09:30:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 3 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 05:25:48 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 05:27:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 4 0 false Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 12:16:05 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 11:09:11 -0800 2009 Ogawa moves like a cat through the prose of these novellas, creeping in the darkness they contain...The Diving Pool, Pregnancy Diary, and The Dormitory. Cruelty seems normal, obsession, jus...more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 4 0 false Fri May 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 23:10:52 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 14:43:08 -0700 2008
The girl in the title story, with her yearning for her foster brother and her cruelty for the infant girl in her care, showing two pr...more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 2 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 28 07:12:28 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 17:35:49 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 3 0 false Sat Jan 17 09:05:43 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 09:08:54 -0800 2009 1337973 0312426836 9780312426835 160 50 3.70 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas 4 0 false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 12:39:53 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 12:40:37 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=3181563