{"product_id":"the-diving-pool-three-novellas","title":"The Diving Pool (Three Novellas)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBOOK SUMMARY\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\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. 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 sister's? A woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boardinghouse run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHauntingly 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\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eYoko Ogawa's fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, and she has won Japan's most prestigious literary awards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eStephen Snyder teaches Japanese literature at Middlebury College. His translations include works by Kenzaburo Oe, Ryu Murakami, Natsuo Kirino, and Miri Yu.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePRAISE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\"Yoko Ogawa is able to give expression to the most subtle workings of human psychology in prose that is gentle yet penetrating.\" — Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Prize–winning author of A Personal Matter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\"Yoko Ogawa's fiction is like a subtle, psychoactive drug.\" — Kathryn Harrison, bestselling author of The Kiss\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePRODUCT INFORMATION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-pre-wrap leading-[1.7]\"\u003eTrade Paperback \u003cbr\u003e192 Pages \u003cbr\u003eFiction \u003cbr\u003e8.3 in H | 5.4 in W | 0.5 in T | 0.4 lb\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Posman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46018124579015,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/3277\/8951\/files\/the-diving-pool-three-novellas-6972775.jpg?v=1774628830","url":"https:\/\/posmanbooks.com\/products\/the-diving-pool-three-novellas","provider":"Posman Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}