{"product_id":"9781429924955","title":"The Diving Pool: Three Novellas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Akutagawa Award-winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a haunting trio of novellas about love, fertility, obsession, and how even the most innocent gestures may contain a hairline crack of cruel intent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boarding house run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, \u003ci\u003eThe Diving Pool \u003c\/i\u003eis a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163937292528,"sku":"9781429924955","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429924955_p0.jpg?v=1769901603","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429924955","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}