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„Aventura lui Kirino pe tarimul povestilor populare aduce aminte de romanele ei mai vechi, mai ales prin personajele feminine care, nedreptatite de iubitii lor, se opun conventiilor societatii si lupta impotriva nedreptatii.” (Booklist)

A disturbing masterpiece of narrative invention and moving storytelling from one of Japan's most highly respected and bestselling writers.

He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are reintroduced to one another, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. The Professor may not remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. He devises clever maths riddles - based on her shoe size or her birthday - and the numbers reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her ten-year-old son. With each new equation, the three lost souls forge an affection more mysterious than imaginary numbers, and a bond that runs deeper than memory.

Roman distins in anul aparitiei cu Premiul Junichiro Tanizaki si ecranizat, in 2010, in regia lui Makoto Shinozaki, intr-o productie cu actrita Tae Kimura in rolul principal.

Mari begins to visit the mysterious man at his island home, and he initiates her into a dark realm of both pain and pleasure. As Mari's mother and the police begin to close in on the illicit affair, events move to a dramatic climax.

Autoare a peste 20 de opere de fictiune, recompensata cu importante premii literare, tradusa in peste 20 de tari, scriitoarea Yoko Ogawa este o voce majora din literatura japoneza actuala. Romanul Hotel Iris poate fi interpretat ca o replica stralucita la Lolita lui Nabokov.