Sayonara (novel)

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Sayonara
File:Mich sayonara 1st ed.jpg
First edition
Author James A. Michener
Country United States
Language English
Publisher Random House
Publication date
1953
Media type print
Pages 243pp.

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Sayonara (1954), is a novel published by American author James A. Michener. 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.

Film adaptation

Sayonara was made into a film of the same name in 1957 directed by Joshua Logan and starring Marlon Brando.


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