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 wha
Hotel Iris: novel
โ Scribed by Ogawa, Yoko
- Publisher
- Picador
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 110 KB
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Young hotel clerk Mari is drawn to a widowed translator suspected of killing his wife, who initiates her into a dark realm of pleasure and pain, a world that she embraces even more than the translator.
โฆ Subjects
A Novel
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