Hotel Iris by Ogawa, Yoko
Hotel Iris by Ogawa, Yoko

Hotel Iris

"[Ogawa] creates moments of breathtaking ugliness, often when least expected . . . but also sometimes a...
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Author: Yoko Ogawa
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Hotel Iris by Ogawa, Yoko

Hotel Iris

$27.63
Hotel Iris by Ogawa, Yoko

Hotel Iris

$27.63
Author: Yoko Ogawa
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"[Ogawa] creates moments of breathtaking ugliness, often when least expected . . . but also sometimes a longing that is touching and tender." --Daniel Hahn, The Independent

From the award-winning author of Mina's Matchbox and The Memory Police, a dark and twisted psychosexual fever dream about the relationship between an innkeeper's daughter and their guest.

In a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the off-season customers. When one night they are forced to expel a middle-aged man and a sex worker from their room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man's voice, in what will become the first gesture of a single long seduction. In spite of her provincial surroundings and her cool but controlling mother, Mari is a sophisticated observer of human desire, and she sees in this man something she has long been looking for.

The man is a proud if threadbare translator living on an island off the coast. A widower, he is the subject of eerie rumors around town--some say he may have murdered his wife. Mari begins to visit him on his island, and he soon initiates her into a dark realm of both pain and pleasure, a place in which she finds herself more at ease even than the translator. As Mari's mother begins to close in on the affair, Mari's sense of what is suitable and what is desirable are recklessly engaged.

Yoko Ogawa's Hotel Iris is a stirring novel about the sometimes violent ways in which we express intimacy and the untranslatable essence of love.

Author: Yoko Ogawa
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 09/16/2025
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781250375957

About the Author

Yoko Ogawa is the author of Mina's Matchbox, The Memory Police, The Diving Pool, and The Housekeeper and the Professor. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, A Public Space, and Zoetrope. Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her novel The Housekeeper and the Professor was adapted into the 2006 film The Professor's Beloved Equation. She lives in Ashiya, Japan, with her husband and son.

Stephen Snyder teaches Japanese literature at Middlebury College. His translations include works by Kenzaburō Ōe, Ryu Murakami, Natsuo Kirino, and Miri Yu.
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