YÅko Ogawa,Stephen    Snyder
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 poolâ€”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 hallucinationâ€”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.
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The Diving Pool: Three Novellas