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 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 boarding house 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 01/22/2008
ISBN: 9780312426835
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/29/2007 pg. 30
Kirkus Reviews 12/01/2007 pg. 1218
Entertainment Weekly 02/19/2008 pg. 100
Booklist 02/01/2008 pg. 26
New York Times Book Review 03/23/2008 pg. 20