# Hotel Iris

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- Book: [Hotel Iris](https://www.bookquiver.com/ogawa-yoko/hotel-iris) ([Hotel Iris.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ogawa-yoko/hotel-iris.md))
- Authors: [Jóko Ogawa](https://www.bookquiver.com/ogawa-yoko)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9954-899-7
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2014-07-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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. 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. By the author of The Housekeeper and the Professor