Sayonara Bar
- ISBN-10
- 0312362102
- ISBN-13
- 9780312362102
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 388
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-03-20
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Susan Barker
Description
Mary, an English graduate student, has taken a job at a hostess lounge in Osaka, Japan, spending her evenings flirting with wealthy Japanese customers and falling in love with her boss's son, Yuji, whose own loyalty is to the petty Yakuza gangster for whom he works. A first novel. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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