Please Enjoy Your Happiness: A Memoir
Author(s): Paul Brinkley-Rogers
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 Cafe. 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.
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An unforgettable love story written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
A moving memoir exploring the lasting imprint of his first love The Lady Enchanting Daily Express
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Bluebird
- : 0.48
- : 234mm X 153mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 February 2016
- : books
Special Fields
- : 320
- : Air Iri OME
- : Paperback
- : Paul Brinkley-Rogers