Hotel Iris
Author(s): Yoko Ogawa
In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forced to eject a prostitute and a middle-aged man from his room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man's voice, in what will become the first gesture of a long seduction. Mari begins to visit the mysterious man at his island home, and he initiates her into a dark realm of both pain and pleasure. As Mari's mother and the police begin to close in on the illicit affair, events move to a dramatic climax.
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A dark and beautifully written story of a young girl's tragic love triangle with an older man and his young nephew
Since 1988, Yoko Ogawa has written more than twenty works of fiction and non-fiction, and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Harvill Secker published The Diving Pool, a collection of three novellas, in 2007 and her novel The Housekeeper and the Professor in 2009.
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : Vintage
- : 0.129
- : 01 April 2011
- : 198mm X 129mm X 11mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 April 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : Yoko Ogawa
- : Paperback
- : 1106
- : 895.635
- : 176