Yoko Ogawa

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Hotel Iris

Beschreibung

In 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.

Autor

Yoko Ogawa has won every major Japanese literary award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, A Public Space and Zoetrope. Her works include The Diving Pool, The Housekeeper and the Professor, Hotel Iris and Revenge. Her most recent novel, The Memory Police, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 697251
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 128g
• ISBN-13: 9780099548997
• ISBN-10: 0099548992
• Artikelnr.: 32110076

Rezensionen

It's brave territory for Ogawa, and she manages in with sharp focus; she creates moments of breathtaking ugliness, often when least expected...but also sometimes a longing that is touching and tender Independent