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Hotel Iris

Author(s): Yoko Ogawa

Fiction and NZ Fiction

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

  • : 9780099548997
  • : Vintage
  • : Vintage
  • : 0.129
  • : April 2011
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 11mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : April 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Yoko Ogawa
  • : Paperback
  • : 1106
  • : 895.635
  • : 176