A tale of twisted love from Yoko Ogawa--author of The Diving Pool and The Housekeeper and the Professor .
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When one night they are forced to expel a middle-aged man and a prostitute from their room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man\'s voice, in what will become the first gesture of a single long seduction.
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-season customers.
A tale of twisted love from Yoko Ogawa--author of The Diving Pool and The Housekeeper and the Professor