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Please enjoy your happiness / Paul Brinkley-Rogers.

Summary:

"Please Enjoy Your Happiness is a beautifully written coming-of-age memoir based on the English author's summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman. Whilst serving as a seaman at the age of nineteen, 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 him under her wing, sharing their love of poetry, cinema and music and many an afternoon at the Mozart Café. Brinkley-Rogers, now in his seventies, re-reads Yukiko's letters and finally recognizes her as the love of his life, receiving at last the gifts she tried to bestow on him. Reaching across time and continents, Brinkley-Rogers shows us how to reclaim a lost love, inviting us all to celebrate those loves of our lives that never do end."-- Publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 9781501151255
Physical Description: viii, 354 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition: First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York : Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Originally published in 2016 in Great Britain by Pan Macmillan"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.