The Diving Pool

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The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan’s bestselling and most celebrated authors.From Akutagawa Prize–winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a trio of novellas a bout love, motherhood, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures contain a hairline crack of cruel intent.A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool―a peculiar infatuation that sends unexpected ripples through her life.A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, taking meticulous note of a pregnancy that may or may not be a hallucination―but whose hallucination is it, hers or her sister’s?A woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boardinghouse run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg.Hauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, The Diving Pool is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities. Show more