{"product_id":"hotel-iris-paperback-1","title":"Hotel Iris - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYoko Ogawa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStephen Snyder\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Ogawa] creates moments of breathtaking ugliness, often when least expected . . . but also sometimes a longing that is touching and tender.\" --Daniel Hahn, \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eMina's Matchbox \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Police\u003c\/i\u003e, a dark and twisted psychosexual fever dream about the relationship between an innkeeper's daughter and their guest.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 sex worker 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe man is a proud if threadbare translator living on an island off the coast. A widower, he is the subject of eerie rumors around town--some say 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYoko Ogawa's \u003ci\u003eHotel Iris\u003c\/i\u003e is a stirring novel about the sometimes violent ways in which we express intimacy and the untranslatable essence of love.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYoko Ogawa\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eMina's Matchbox\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Memory Police\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Diving Pool\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Housekeeper and the Professor\u003c\/i\u003e. Her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e A Public Space\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eZoetrope\u003c\/i\u003e. Since 1988 she has published more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction and has won every major Japanese literary award. Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Housekeeper and the Professor\u003c\/i\u003e was adapted into the 2006 film \u003ci\u003eThe Professor's Beloved Equation\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Ashiya, Japan, with her husband and son. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Snyder\u003c\/b\u003e teaches Japanese literature at Middlebury College. His translations include works by Kenzaburō Ōe, Ryu Murakami, Natsuo Kirino, and Miri Yu.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47266946613497,"sku":"9781250375957","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/iBQQ89XmUa9781250375957_6edb855c-a70e-42bb-b0f7-6d2cdbdf7f7f.webp?v=1768857711","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/hotel-iris-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}