What happens when two shy children meet at a very crowded pool? Dive in to find out! Deceptively simple, this masterful book tells a story of quiet moments and surprising encounters, and reminds us that friendship and imagination have no bounds.

Maisy's fun and familiar world reflects favorite TV episodes—and the lively adventures young children have every day. One of four adventures familiar to children who watch Maisy on TV, in MAISY'S POOL, Maisy and her friends splash in a wading pool. As always, toddlers, preschoolers, and parents will find the ordinary extraordinary with Maisy!

Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa. 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...(展开全部)

霍林赫斯特在三十四歲出版的第一部作品《游泳池更衣室》（The Swimming-Pool Library，一九八八年出版）可以说是部披了同志小說外衣的歷史小說，有點像披了羊皮的狼。霍林赫斯特愛玩文字遊戲，連書名也不放過。《游泳池更衣室》通常直接按照英文書名譯為《游泳池圖書館》，但什麼是「游泳池圖書館」，以及「游泳池圖書館員」？太玄了吧？其實，解釋藏在書中第七章。主人翁在小時候就讀貴族中學（霍林赫斯特特別愛寫貴族中學、貴族大學的生活──可見他特別懷舊，對上流社會又愛又恨），該校習慣用「圖書館員」一詞來稱「股長」之類的學生職位。台灣中小學的「風紀股長」可以按照這種邏輯改叫「風紀圖書館員」；英國中學的「田徑圖書館員」當然不掌管書。「游泳池圖書館員」就是「游泳股長」，而這個股長平時打混的地方，泳池更衣室──一個充滿性幻想、窺視、曝露的純男空間──就成了游泳池...(展开全部)

A literary sensation and bestseller both in England and America, The Swimming-Pool Library is an enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge of AIDS; an elegy, possessed of chilling clarity, for ways of life that can no longer be lived with impunity. "Impeccably composed and meticulously particular in its observation of everything" (Harpers & Queen), it...(展开全部)

The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors From Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent.A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watche...(展开全部)