{"product_id":"the-diving-pool-weird-girls-vintage-classics","title":"Weird Girls - The Diving Pool","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe VINTAGE CLASSICS WEIRD GIRLS series ventures into the dark heart of the uncanny with disturbing, and disturbed, protagonists who dare to defy the norm. Bold, deviant, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDriven 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDive into this triptych of psychological horror stories with themes of Japanese femininity, loneliness, and societal alienation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her works include \u003cem\u003eThe Diving Pool\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Housekeeper and the Professor\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHotel Iris\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRevenge\u003c\/em\u003e. Her novel \u003cem\u003eThe Memory Police\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Translator\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStephen 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 Yoko Ogawa’s \u003cem\u003eHotel Iris\u003c\/em\u003e was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12.9 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46589384523933,"sku":"9781529955712","price":69.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/7575\/1837\/files\/the_diving_pool_weird_girls_vintage_classics_yoko_ogawa_9781529955712.jpg?v=1741942843","url":"https:\/\/mphonline.com\/products\/the-diving-pool-weird-girls-vintage-classics","provider":"MPHOnline.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}