The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's most celebrated, award-winning authors.
Yoko Ogawa (Author)
Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction
has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. Her
works include The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor,
Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, The Memory Police,
was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
Stephen Snyder (Translator)
Stephen 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 Natsuo Kirino's Out was a finalist
for the Edgar Award for best mystery novel in 2004, and his
translation of Yoko Ogawa's Hotel Iris was shortlisted for the Man
Asian Literary Prize in 2011.?
Written in haunting, spare, shimmering prose...punctuated by acts
of casual violence and vindictive spite. Profoundly unsettling,
magnificently written and instantly memorable, these stories
vindicate [Ogawa's] status as one of Japan's greatest living
writers
*Guardian*
Yoko Ogawa's British debut is inexcusably belated....Ogawa is a
conspicuously gifted writer... Not a word is wasted, yet each
resonates with a blend of poetry and tension... mesmerising... To
read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare,
and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an effortless,
glassy, eerie brilliance. She should be discovered in Britain, and
this book must surely begin the process
*Guardian*
The three Japanese novellas in The Diving Pool are both creepy and
disturbingly lovely...spine-tingling uncertainty surfaces
throughout the haunting prose
*Dazed & Confused*
A fine collection of three queasily unsettling novellas... She
invests the most seemingly banal domestic situations with a
chilling and malevolent sense of perversity, marking her out as a
master of subtle psychological horror
*Daily Telegraph*
An intriguing trilogy of exquisitely sketched stories... Elegant,
intelligent, quietly disturbing
*Financial Times*
Original, elegant, very disturbing... on the edge of the
unspeakable
A welcome introduction to an author whose suggestive, unsettling
storytelling speaks volumes by leaving things unsaid
*Independent*
Hard not to finish in one go, Yoko Ogawa's stories are perfect for
spooky bedtime reading - and not-so-sweet dreams
*Big Issue*
Polished, original and strange. She reveals humour, menace, and
humanity in a quietly explosive book
*Irish Times*
Her combination of the strange with the visceral elegantly conveys
silent inner worlds of misery and pain
*Metro*
Written in haunting, spare, shimmering prose...punctuated by acts
of casual violence and vindictive spite. Profoundly unsettling,
magnificently written and instantly memorable, these stories
vindicate [Ogawa's] status as one of Japan's greatest living
writers * Guardian *
Yoko Ogawa's British debut is inexcusably belated....Ogawa is a
conspicuously gifted writer... Not a word is wasted, yet
each resonates with a blend of poetry and tension... mesmerising...
To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a
nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She possesses an
effortless, glassy, eerie brilliance. She should be discovered in
Britain, and this book must surely begin the process * Guardian
*
The three Japanese novellas in The Diving Pool are both
creepy and disturbingly lovely...spine-tingling uncertainty
surfaces throughout the haunting prose * Dazed & Confused *
A fine collection of three queasily unsettling novellas... She
invests the most seemingly banal domestic situations with a
chilling and malevolent sense of perversity, marking her out as
a master of subtle psychological horror * Daily Telegraph
*
An intriguing trilogy of exquisitely sketched stories... Elegant,
intelligent, quietly disturbing * Financial Times *
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