Novel set in 1950s HOLLYWOOD and EALING (London)
Singular Rebellion
Location(s): Japan
Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
Era(s): 1960s
Japan’s economic recovery after the second world war was miraculous. Singular Rebellion, which is set in the 1960s, provides a comic insight into that period. When Eisuke Mabuchi, a recent widower and employee of a small Tokyo electrics firm, falls in love with Yukari, a model 20 years his junior, he looks forward to a casual affair. But at the insistence of her father the pair marry and Yukari moves in with Mabuchi. This sparks a comic chain of events. Mabuchi’s maid quits and his home descends into chaos. Meanwhile, the bride’s grandmother (just out of jail for murder) moves in and granddaughter’s behaviour grows increasingly erratic.
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