# Diving Pool

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- Book: [Diving Pool](https://www.bookquiver.com/yoko-ogawa/diving-pool) ([Diving Pool.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/yoko-ogawa/diving-pool.md))
- Authors: [Jóko Ogawa](https://www.bookquiver.com/yoko-ogawa)
- Publisher: picador
- ISBN: 978-12-5037-596-4
- Published: 2025-07-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's 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 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. 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.