Please enjoy your happiness : a memoir /
by Brinkley-Rogers, Paul.
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BookPublisher: London : Bluebird, 2017Description: 320 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781509806072 (pbk.) :; 1509806075 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 973.9209 BRISubject(s): Brinkley-Rogers, Paul | Americans -- Japan | May-December romances | Man-woman relationships | Japan -- History -- Showa period, 1926-1989 | History | HistorySummary: 'Please Enjoy Your Happiness' is a coming-of-age memoir based on the English author's summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman. When serving as a seaman aged 19, Brinkley-Rogers met Kaji Yukiko, a sophisticated, highly intellectual Japanese woman, who was on the run from her vicious gangster boyfriend, a member of Japan's brutal crime syndicate, the Yakuza. Trying to create a perfect experience of purity, she took Rogers under her wing, sharing their love of poetry, cinema and music and many an afternoon at The Mozart Cafe. Brinkley-Rogers, now in his seventies, re-reads Yukiko's letters and finally recognises her as the love of his life, receiving at last the gifts she tried to bestow on him.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Paperback | Bootle Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 973.9209 BRI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 002942935X |
Originally published: 2016.
Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography and index.
'Please Enjoy Your Happiness' is a coming-of-age memoir based on the English author's summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman. When serving as a seaman aged 19, Brinkley-Rogers met Kaji Yukiko, a sophisticated, highly intellectual Japanese woman, who was on the run from her vicious gangster boyfriend, a member of Japan's brutal crime syndicate, the Yakuza. Trying to create a perfect experience of purity, she took Rogers under her wing, sharing their love of poetry, cinema and music and many an afternoon at The Mozart Cafe. Brinkley-Rogers, now in his seventies, re-reads Yukiko's letters and finally recognises her as the love of his life, receiving at last the gifts she tried to bestow on him.
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