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by Ogawa, Yoko | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published 04/09/2025 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Weird Girls series P aperback | 176 pages129 x 198 x 13mm | 132g'Your body falling through space touches the deepest part of me'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.The Vintage Classics Weird Girls series: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors. Bold, disruptive, chilling and enchanting, these tales of the weird are strange enough to get lost in. Show more