by JohnBurnhamSchwartz (Author)
Alec Stern, a newly minted Yate graduate, is on assigment in Tokyo, staying with a Japanese family. Infatuated with Japan since he was small, he desperately wants to make this foreign place his own - and in the process, to distance himself from his ruptured past. In Tokyo he struggles to master Japanese ways in a series of sharp and funny vignettes. He also earns the trust and companionship of his Japanese family's infinitely patient and lonely mother; his hard boiled American boss; and Kiyoko Kawashima, a woman considered too old to be of interest to Japanese men, and whose beauty stuns Alec.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 02 Sep 1999
ISBN 10: 0753807645
ISBN 13: 9780753807644