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UNCERTAIN LUCK IBD

REAL NICE BOOKS
10 / 2020
9781735593807
Anglès

Sinopsi

Another novel of international love and intrigue by the prize-winning author of A Hundred Veils.áIn 1969 Japan, EmikoâÇÖs father has gone to Tokyo to support students protesting the Vietnam War-but hasnâÇÖt come back. Then suddenly her mother dies. Alone and in despair, twenty-year-old Emiko abandons her factory job to go searching for her missing father.áTo survive in Tokyo, she stays at a hostel in the seedy Sanya neighborhood and takes a job as hostess in a bar where sheâÇÖs required to 'talk cute,' which goes against her grain.áSheâÇÖs previously refused an offer to become the second wife of the rich Genji, twice her age, who had been in love with her mother. But when sheâÇÖs fired and out of money, in desperation she goes to GenjiâÇÖs office, hoping for a loan. Genji has something else in mind.áEmiko nearly gives up finding her father when she meets Juan, an American soldier recovering from a battle injury. Now sheâÇÖs in love with a soldier in the war she and her father have been denouncing for years.áUncertain Luck provides a vivid picture of the persistence of love at a time of political conflict in Japan.

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