{"product_id":"the-diving-pool-three-novellas","title":"The Diving Pool: Three Novellas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Akutagawa Prize-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a trio of novellas about love, motherhood, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures contain a hairline crack of cruel intent. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boardinghouse run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, \u003ci\u003eThe Diving Pool\u003c\/i\u003e is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1250375967\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781250375964\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Ogawa, Yoko, Snyder, Stephen, Van Den Berg, Laura\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Jul 2025)","offer_id":46080490963141,"sku":"9781250375964","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781250375964.jpg?v=1776037851","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/the-diving-pool-three-novellas","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}