Hotel Iris

Zusatztext

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>By the author of<i>The Housekeeper and the Professor</i></p>

Autorenportrait

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<i>The</i><i>New Yorker</i>,<i>A Public Space</i>, and<i>Zoetrope</i>. Harvill Secker published<i>The Diving Pool</i>, a collection of three novellas, in 2007 and her novel<i>The Housekeeper and the Professor</i>in 2009.

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