<DIV><DIV><P><B>The first major English translation of one of contemporary Japan's bestselling and most celebrated authors</B></P><P><B></B> </P><DIV><P>From 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.</P><P>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.</P><P>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?</P><P>A woman nostalgically visits her old college dormitory on the outskirts of Tokyo, a boarding house run by a mysterious triple amputee with one leg.</P><P>Hauntingly spare, beautiful, and twisted, <I>The Diving Pool </I>is a disquieting and at times darkly humorous collection of novellas about normal people who suddenly discover their own dark possibilities.</P></DIV></DIV></DIV>