Uncertain Luck

Another novel of international love and intrigue by the prize-winning author of A Hundred Veils. In 1969 Japan Emikos father has gone to Tokyo to support students protesting the Vietnam War-but hasnt 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. To survive in Tokyo she stays at a hostel in the seedy Sanya neighborhood and takes a job as hostess in a bar where shes required to talk cute which goes against her grain. Shes 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 shes fired and out of money in desperation she goes to Genjis office hoping for a loan. Genji has something else in mind. Emiko nearly gives up finding her father when she meets Juan an American soldier recovering from a battle injury. Now shes in love with a soldier in the war she and her father have been denouncing for years.Uncertain Luck provides a vivid picture of the persistence of love at a time of political conflict in Japan.