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050 00$aPN4874.B6697$bA3 2016
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100 1 $aBrinkley-Rogers, Paul,$eauthor.
245 10$aPlease enjoy your happiness /$cPaul Brinkley-Rogers.
260 $aNew York :$bTouchstone,$c2017.
300 $aviii, 342 p. ;$c22 cm.
490 1 $aTouchstone non fiction reprint hardcover.
500 $aOriginally published in 2016 in Great Britain by Pan Macmillan--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 345-354).
505 0 $aOne fine day -- The torment -- Blue woman -- A certain girl -- Time of the typewriter -- Man like a bear -- Spider woman -- Nice simple boy -- There is no forgiveness -- Five simple rules -- The police know everything -- Yukiko's list -- The most beautiful -- The tower of lilies -- What is my joy? -- Hall of flowers -- Inappropriate thinking -- Friends and enemies -- Waiting woman -- Am I OK? -- Nocturnes -- What men find beautiful -- The garden of grand vision -- We are very sorry -- Can you find it in your heart?.
520 2 $aPlease Enjoy Your Happiness is a beautifully written coming-of-age memoir based on the English author's summer- long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman. Whilst serving as a seaman at the age of nineteen, Brinkley-Rogers met Kaji Yukiko, a sophisticated, highly intellectual Japanese woman, who was on the run from her vicious gangster boyfriend, a member of Japan's brutal crime syndicate, the Yakuza. Trying to create a perfect experience of purity, she took him under her wing, sharing their love of poetry, cinema and music and many an afternoon at the Mozart Café. Brinkley-Rogers, now in his seventies, re-reads Yukiko's letters and finally recognizes her as the love of his life, receivingat last the gifts she tried to bestow on him. Reaching across time and continents, Brinkley-Rogers shows us how to reclaim a lost love, inviting us all to celebrate those loves of our lives that never do end--Publisher description.
600 10$aKaji, Yukiko.
600 10$aBrinkley-Rogers, Paul$xRelations with women.
600 10$aBrinkley-Rogers, Paul$xChildhood and youth.
650 0$aJournalists$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0$aBritish Americans$zJapan$vBiography.
650 0$aSailors$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0$aComing of age.
650 0$aMay-December romances.
650 0$aMan-woman relationships.
650 0$aLove$xPhilosophy.
830 0$aTouchstone non fiction reprint hardcover.