The Diving Pool: Three Novellas (Akutagawa Prize Winner)

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 li...