Uncertain Luck - Rea Keech

Another novel of international love and intrigue by the prize-winning author of A Hundred Veils. In 1969 Japan, Emiko''s father has gone to Tokyo to support students protesting the Vietnam War-but hasn''t 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 she''s required to..