Ryuichi Yoneyama

The Sidney Romance Ryuichi Yoneyama

Twenty-one-year old Japanese woman Noriko arrives to Sidney with her newly married husband Masahiko, but, as she believes that her marriage is a mistake, she walks out from their hotel room to meet young Australian George, whom she met in Tokyo a year before. The similar real accident from 1992 was a base for this novel, but was also a foundation for a script for Russell Crowe' s 1997 film Heaven's Burning.  This novel is an extract from real life of young people in Japan in last decade of the 20. Century.