Description: In this trade paperback original, Yoko Ogawa, beloved author of The Housekeeper and the Professor, returns with the twisted tale of a young girl's affair with a mysterious translator on an island off the coast of Japan.
Brief description: Yoko Ogawa is the author of The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, and Hotel Iris. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her novel The Housekeeper and the Professor has been adapted into a film, The Professor's Beloved Equation. She lives in Ashiya, Japan, with her husband and son.
Review Quotes:
"Ogawa is original, elegant, very disturbing." --Hilary Mantel, author of WOLF HALL
"I've been telling everyone about this book. . . . It's a story about love, which is quite different from a love story. It's one of the most beautiful novels." --Junot Diaz on The Housekeeper and the Professor "Gorgeous, cinematic. . . This novel has all the charm and restraint of any by Ishiguro or Kenzaburo Oe, and the whimsy of Murakami." --Los Angeles Times on The Housekeeper and the Professor "Strangely charming, flecked with enough wit and mystery to keep us engaged throughout." --The Washington Post Book World on The Housekeeper and the Professor "Still waters run dark in these bright yet eerie novellas, whose crisp, almost guileless prose hides unexpected menace." --The New York Times Book Review on The Diving Pool "Exquisitly disturbing . . . Ogawa steadily builds the tension to an unexpected crescendo." --Elle on The Diving Pool "Ogawa writes in a lean, muscular way that goes deep, exploring how malevolence coexists with everyday impulse. . . . She creates a memorable unease." --Los Angeles Times on The Diving Pool