num_pages: 164
description: 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 poola 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 hallucinationbut 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.
language: English
title: The Diving Pool: Three Novellas
publisher: Picador