Sayonara

FIRST BALLANTINE BOOKS EDITION. Feb. 1983 mass market paperback. James A. Michener (Hawaii). Set during 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 cross-cultural Japanese romance and illuminates the racism of the post-WWII time period.