# Hotel Iris

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/ogawa-yoko/hotel-iris/9781807843038

- 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_classics
- Translated by: Stephen Snyder
- ISBN: 978-18-0784-303-8
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2027-02-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

‘Ogawa is original, elegant, very disturbing.’ Hilary Mantel Mari works the front desk at her mother’s crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan. One night, a strange encounter with an older guest ignites a disturbing erotic affair, marking Mari’s initiation into a dark realm of both pleasure and pain. Bold and surprising to the very last, Hotel Iris is a stirring novel that travels to the violent edge of love and intimacy, from the author of cult classic The Memory Police . ‘[Ogawa] creates moments of breathtaking ugliness. . . but also sometimes a longing that is touching and tender.’ Independent Vintage Desire: classic stories of lust and longing.