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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.

Romanciera, autoare a numeroase volume de proza scurta si eseista, recompensata cu cele mai importante premii literare din Japonia, tradusa in peste 20 de limbi, Yoko Ogawa este mai cu seama cunoscuta datorita romanuluiProfesorul si menajera, ecranizat in 2006 de regizorul Takashi Koizumi.

„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)

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.

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.

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband then confesses her crime to Masako, the closest of her colleagues. For reasons of her own, Masako agrees to assist her friend and seeks the help of the other co-workers to dismember and dispose of the body. The body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions, but the women have far more dangerous enemies -a yakuza connected loan shark who discovers their secret and has a business proposition, and a ruthless nightclub owner the police are convinced is guilty of the murder. He has lost everything as a result of their crime and he is out for revenge. OUT is a psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul, an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable.