The Diving Pool

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Yoko Ogawa (Okayama, 1962) ha ganado los más importantes premios literarios japoneses, incluidos el Akutagawa y el Tanizaki. Es autora de reconocidas novelas, como el célebre best seller La fórmula preferida del profesor y la magistral novela La Policía de la Memoria, que quedó finalista del National Book Award 2019 y del International Booker Prize 2020, y fue considerada una de las mejores obras del año 2020 por The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, Time, Financial Times, Esquire, Library Journal, Kirkus Review y LitHub.