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Hotel Iris

Translated by Stephen Snyder

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Young hotel clerk Mari is drawn to a widowed translator suspected of killing his wife, who initiates her into a dark realm of pleasure and pain, a world that she embraces even more than the translator.

japanese title: Hoteru Airisu
notes: Japanese title: Hoteru Airisu
subjects: Hotelkeepers
Middle-aged men
Sadomasochism
Sexual abuse victims
Teenage girls
genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312425241
OCLC number: 429024699
publisher: Picador
publication place: New York
japanese publication date: 1996
english publication date: 2010
document type: Book
description: 164 p. ; 21 cm.