Hotel Iris by Yōko Ogawa Business From the author of The

From the author of The Little Prince

with sharp insight gained from years of experience

and their relationship quickly developed into a deep attachment

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his fellow workers become the family he didn’t expect to find

Hotel Iris by Yōko Ogawa Business From the author of TheIn 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