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Sayonara Bar by Susan Barker, Susan Barker is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Sayonara Bar about?

The modern geisha-girl scene is explored in this edgy, commercial literary novel set in a hostess bar in Osaka. Mary, a blond graduate from England, has drifted into a job in a hostess lounge in Osaka. She and other “economy geishas” are employed by the enigmatic Mama-san to spend their evenings flirting with rich Japanese salarymen, playing drinking games and taking turns in the karaoke booth. Mary is in love with Yuji, Mama-san’s handsome son. But Yuji’s loyalty is to the petty Yakuza gangster for whom he works. Watanabe, the introverted cook, watches Mary from the Sayonara’s kitchen. He exists in his own manga-fuelled fantasy of the fourth dimension, but when he perceives the danger of Mary’s growing obsession with Yuji, he resolves to protect her whatever the cost. Mr. Sato works for the Daiwa Trading Corporation. Obsessive overwork cannot cover the emptiness of his solitary life. Lured against his will to the Sayonara Bar by his boss, he finds himself returning there to escape his dead wife’s ghost. Sly and often very funny, Sayonara Bar spins a kaleidoscopic, genre-crossing tale of people cut adrift in a shrinking, globalized world.

Who reads Sayonara Bar?

Author

Susan Barker, Susan Barker

Publisher

Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780552772402

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.46 / 5 (96 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14