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Yōko Ogawa is a Japanese writer. Her work has won every major Japanese literary award, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Yomiuri Prize. Internationally, she has been the recipient of the Shirley Jackson Award and the American Book Award. The Memory Police was also shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020.
Some of her most well known works include The Housekeeper and the Professor, The Diving Pool, and Hotel Iris.
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A writer enters his hotel room only to find a woman, with her dog, mistakenly sitting in it. For the rest of their stay at the hotel, they continue to encounter one another in strange yet familiar ways.