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Please Enjoy Your Happiness - by Paul Brinkley-Rogers (Paperback)

 Please Enjoy Your Happiness - by  Paul Brinkley-Rogers (Paperback)
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A beautiful and evocative memoir based on the author's summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman in the wake of World War II--"the most romantic memoir you're likely to read in a lifetime" (<i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand). <p/>Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley-Rogers has lived an adventurous life all over the world. But there is one story he cannot forget: that of his haunting love affair with a mysterious older Japanese woman in 1959. Paul was a sailor aboard the USS <i>Shangri-La</i> that long-ago summer when he met Kaji Yukiko in the seaport of Yokosuka. A fierce intellectual, Yukiko shared her astonishing knowledge of literature, film, and poetry with Paul and encouraged, even demanded, that he use his gifts to become the writer he is today. <p/>But theirs was not a quiet love story. When a member of the yakuza, Japan's brutal crime syndicate, attempted to kidnap Yukiko, Paul realized that there was much more to her--and to Japan in the devastating wake of World War II--than he saw at first glance. Through the searing letters that Yukiko wrote to him and Paul's vivid telling of a history made all the more powerful and poignant by the weight of time, <i>Please Enjoy Your Happiness</i> reaches across decades and continents, inviting us all to revisit those loves of our lives that never truly end.

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