{"product_id":"hotel-iris-yoko-ogawa-9781250375957","title":"Hotel Iris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHotel Iris\u003c\/i\u003e is a stirring novel about the sometimes violent ways in which we express intimacy and about the untranslatable essence of love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yoko Ogawa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250375959\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250375957\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Yoko Ogawa","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46867226689791,"sku":"9781250375957","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b7ae8bf-ec6a-4d30-bb84-b9d9622eb39a.jpg?v=1747454221","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hotel-iris-yoko-ogawa-9781250375957","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}