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Loading... Please Enjoy Your Happiness: A Memoirby Paul Brinkley-Rogers
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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This writing was enchanting. Most of the book is Paul re-telling their story to Yuki, so it's us witnessing a story in second person. And like overhearing a conversation between two good friends, a lot could be confusing to an outside to the reader, and myself.
But I decided to accept the story's beautiful pieces of writing and not get wrapped into the big picture. It's perhaps a book better targeted to someone older than me who lived during the time of the story. Even more for someone who lived in Japan during that time.
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