# The Diving Pool

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- Authors: [Jóko Ogawa](https://www.bookquiver.com/yoko-ogawa)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2009-04-02
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Short stories, Fiction in translation

## Description

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. 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. Driven by 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.

## Editions

### The Diving Pool

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Translated by: Stephen Snyder
- Medium: audio
- Length: 4 h
- Narrated by: Susan Momoko Hingley
- ISBN: 978-18-0992-243-4
- Published: 2026-10-29
- Language: en_GB

### The Diving Pool

- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- Translated by: Stephen Snyder
- ISBN: 978-15-2995-571-2
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2025-09-04
- Language: en_GB

### The Diving Pool

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9952-135-8
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2014-07-03
- Language: en_GB

### The Diving Pool

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Translated by: Stephen Snyder
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0907-618-6
- Published: 2009-04-02
- Language: en_GB