Sayonara - James Michener - Superb Binding Original Edition 1954 1/200

Fine bibliophilic work in a well-bound first edition.

Translated into more than fifty languages, the books of James Michener
have sold around a hundred million copies worldwide.

Sent by the Navy to the Pacific, he returned from his travels with South Pacific,

which won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1948.

Interested in politics, James Michener campaigned

for the election of John Kennedy in 1960.

During the Korean War, Americans stationed in Japan were forbidden
from marrying Japanese women. The novel Sayonara therefore tells the story of two forbidden loves.

Set in the early 1950s, it tells the story of Major Gruver,

a soldier stationed in Japan who falls in love with Hana-Ogi, a Japanese woman.

The novel follows their intercultural Japanese romance and sheds light on the racism of the post-war period.

Sayonara was adapted into a film of the same name in 1957

directed by Joshua Logan and starring Marlon Brando.

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Condition

Very fine book with minimal signs of wear

• note: rear cover slightly warped
• gilt top edge slightly rubbed

• Interior fresh