{"product_id":"9781250375964","title":"The Diving Pool","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan’s bestselling and most celebrated authors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boardinghouse run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Diving Pool\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ingram Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51807852822759,"sku":"Fiction: Japan","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/3680\/9959\/files\/91BU0W8NiOL._SL1500.jpg?v=1771533624","url":"https:\/\/jfbooks.org\/products\/9781250375964","provider":"JF Books | 季風書園","version":"1.0","type":"link"}