Hotel Iris

by Yoko Ogawa

Professor Stephen Snyder (Translator) and Stephen Snyder (Translator)

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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.

The mysterious man lives quietly as a translator on an island off the coast. A widower, there are murmurs around town that he may have murdered his wife. Mari begins to visit him, but as he...Read more
  • ISBN10 1429922680
  • ISBN13 9781429922685
  • Publish Date 30 March 2010
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Picador USA
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 176
  • Language English