When Allan Kennedy, an American occupation officer, first saw the beautiful Japenese girl Josui, he knew he must have her. But thwarting their love was the fierce hatred of her anti-American father. Disregarding this opposition, Josui and Allen were married by a Buddhist priest. Then they sailed for America. In America, two people waited: Allen's mother, a women as selfish as she was aristocratic, as set against Josui as that lovely girl's father was against Allen; and Cynthia, a girl of ravishing beauty, who shared with Allen memories that Josui could never understand.

(Key Words: Fiction, Asian-American, Asian, Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize Winners).