A beautiful and evocative memoir based on the author's summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman in the wake of World War II--"the most romantic memoir you're likely to read in a lifetime" (New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand).

Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley-Rogers has lived an adventurous life all over the world. But there is one story he cannot forget: that of his haunting love affair with a mysterious older Japanese woman in 1959. Paul was a sailor aboard the USS Shangri-La that long-ago summer when he met Kaji...