Hotel Iris: A Novel

“[Ogawa] creates moments of breathtaking ugliness, often when least expected . . . but also sometimes a longing that is touching and tender.” —Daniel Hahn, The Independent

From the award-winning author of Mina’s Matchbox and The Memory Police, a dark and twisted psychosexual fever dream about the relationship between an innkeeper’s daughter and their guest.

In 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-sea...