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Gangsters, Geishas, Monks & Me - A Memoir of Three Years in the Underbelly of Japan (Paperback)
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Gangsters, Geishas, Monks & Me - A Memoir of Three Years in the Underbelly of Japan (Paperback)
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Loot Price R493
Discovery Miles 4 930
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As a young American in a Zen monastery in a small Japanese fishing
town and later as that town's only resident foreigner, Gordon
Hutchison knows mistakes have consequences. But when he befriends
the local yakuza boss, his life takes a dramatic turn into the
unforgiving dictates of gangsters and geishas-where one misstep
could cost him much more. Irreverent yet introspective, Gangsters,
Geishas, Monks & Me chronicles Hutchison's odyssey through the
foreigner-hostile backdrops of Zen, the yakuza and the "water
trade" in his trial-by-fire initiation into Japanese culture. From
below-freezing monastery winters to mob meetings with murder on the
agenda to love cabaret-style, his graphic narrative is as thought-
provoking as it is improbable. A story so rare, so revealing, that
60 Minutes tracked Hutchison down to interview "the only foreigner
to hang out with yakuza," Gangsters, Geishas, Monks & Me takes
readers deep inside clandestine worlds where few Japanese dare
venture and no foreigner has gone before.
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