{"product_id":"the-diving-pool-1250375967","title":"The Diving Pool","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1250375967\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ogawa, Yoko\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first major English translation of one of contemporary Japans bestselling and most celebrated authors.From 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.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 sisters?A woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boardinghouse 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52166678380832,"sku":"NEW1250375967","price":16.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/91BU0W8NiOL.jpg?v=1786310604","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-diving-pool-1250375967","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}