{"product_id":"the-diving-pool-by-yoko-ogawa","title":"The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\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\u003c\/strong\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e“Yoko Ogawa is able to give expression to the most subtle workings of human psychology in prose that is gentle yet penetrating.” ―\u003cem\u003eKenzaburo Oe, Nobel Prize-winning author of \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Personal Matter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Three beautifully-drawn and genuinely eerie stories. Each one builds an image that you can't quite shake out of your mind.” ―\u003cem\u003eAimee Bender, author of\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e The Girl in the Flammable Skirt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“What a strange and compelling little volume this is. Yoko Ogawa's fiction is like a subtle, psychoactive drug. Long after you read it, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Diving Pool \u003c\/span\u003ewill remain with you, shifting your vision, eroding your composure, raising questions about even the most seemingly conventional people you encounter. Her gift is to both reveal and preserve the mystery of human nature.” ―\u003cem\u003eKathryn Harrison, bestselling author of\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e The Kiss\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRODUCT DETAILS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePicador\u003cbr\u003eISBN: \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e978-1250375964\u003cbr\u003ePages: 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Page \u0026 Turner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889662423248,"sku":null,"price":1095.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8000\/5328\/files\/9781250375964_p0_v4_s1200x630.jpg?v=1766998929","url":"https:\/\/pageandturner.ph\/products\/the-diving-pool-by-yoko-ogawa","provider":"Page \u0026 Turner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}