A tale of twisted love from Yoko Ogawa--author of "The Diving Pool"
and "The Housekeeper and the Professor." 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
prostitute 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, there are whispers around town
that 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. "Hotel Iris" is a stirring novel about the
sometimes violent ways in which we express intimacy and about the
untranslatable essence of love.
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