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.
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..
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 boarding house run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg.
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.
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
