The Diving Pool

A trio of novellas from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author explores the mysteries of love, motherhood, fertility, obsession, innocence, and cruelty, in the stories of a lonely teenage girl who falls in love with her foster brother, a young woman who records her pregnant sister's daily moods in a journal, and a woman who revisits her old college dormitory outside of Tokyo. Original. 30,000 first printing.